SL9B resident centralised birthday update 1
On Monday 14th May 2012 Saffia Widdershins will be making a formal announcement about a SL9B resident centralised birthday which is very exciting news indeed. Well done to those planning SL9B well ahead of time and it’s going to be interesting who will hosting SL9B events during June 2012 in the SL community. Prim Perfect mentions some early SL9B details. See below.
For the moment I can say that it will be ten sims. There will be stages, resident plots, art plots, and there are plans to link to other community events across the grid.
There will be a birthday cake and a time capsule.
But there will be no involvement by Linden Lab. This a 100% resident event (which is being organised by some of the volunteers behind past Birthday and Burn events).
Stay tuned for the formal announcement on SL9B next week. Yay! 
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Oskar Linden talks about the recent hardware failure at Linden Lab
A few days ago Oskar Linden replied to second life down again? unscheduled maintenance? thread on the SL Forums. Oskar talks about the recovery process of the recent hardware failure at one of the data centers Linden Lab operates. Thanks to Oskar Linden for letting the SL community know about this failure. Check out the message below…
These issues were the result of a hardware failure in one of our datacenters. The issue was noticed immediately and acted upon within minutes. A key first step is intentionally disabling logins and billing. The second step is recovering the hardware or working around it. The third step is bringing services back online slowly to make sure all is well. This entire process took 30 minutes. Say what you will, but that is a very impressive response time. After core functionality was returned we focused on regions that had been affected and worked to get them stable again.
I know it is frustrating when events like this happen, and we understand the difficulties it is from your perspective. We react as quick as possible to stabilize the grid once events like this arise.
__Oskar
Linden Lab has announced scheduled maintenance for today (9th May) and tomorrow on 10th May starting from 6pm SLT. The SL maintenance is set to last around 8 hours. Expect crashes and delays for some time during the downtime hours. It would be nice to know what is being fixed/changed during these scheduled maintenance periods.
[Posted 9:45am PDT, 8 May 2012] We will be performing scheduled maintenance today, Wednesday and Thursday of this week (May 8, May 9, May 10), beginning at 6:00pm PDT each day. Each maintenance is scheduled to last around 8 hours. Please save all builds and refrain from rezzing no copy objects, as some regions may be taken offline and remain offline for extended periods of time. Please follow this blog for any updated information.
Keep checking…http://status.secondlifegrid.net/ for the latest grid updates.
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Bay City Fourth Anniversary: Press Release
Check out this press release by Marianne McCann, announcing details about the upcoming Bay City Fourth Anniversary in Second Life on the 20th of May 2012. Check out the amazing Bay City Fourth Anniversary posters below and more below.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Marianne McCann
Bay City Alliance
marianne.mccann@gmail.comCELEBRATE OUR FOURTH
Bay City’s Fourth Anniversary Celebration is fun for all
BAY CITY, SL (5th May, 2012) – Four years ago, the mainland area known as Bay City joined the Second Life™ Grid. Now, on the 20th of May, 2012, Bay City will celebrate its fourth anniversary as one of the best places inworld.
Anniversary celebrations will kick off around noon SLT/PDT, with a parade lineup at the bandshell in Bay City – Harwich. The parade will make its way down Route 66 beginning at 12:30 p.m. SLT/PDT, concluding at the Bay City Fairgrounds in the North Channel region.
A live concert will kick off at 1:30 p.m. SLT/PDT at the Fairgrounds, featuring Christov Kohnke, Bluemonk Rau, and RoseDrop Rust, and including GoSpeed Racer of KONA Stream providing music leading into the event. The “Golden Tigers” aerial acrobatic team is also planning a flyover of the fairground at approximately 1:30 p.m. SLT/PDT.
The Linden Department of Public Works is also planning on opening a classic boardwalk amusement park located within the Weston and Oak Bluffs regions, in conjunction with the Bay City Anniversary.
All Residents of the Second Life grid are encouraged to participate. Posters, banners, parade float bases, and other goods are available at the Bay City Community Center, in the Daley Bay region, for those who wish to be a part of the parade, and able viewing area is provided. The music event is also open to all who desire to attend.
Bay City is a mainland community, developed by Linden Lab™ and home to the Bay City Alliance. The Bay City Alliance was founded in 2008 to promote the Bay City regions of Second Life™ and provide a venue for Bay City Residents and other interested parties to socialize and network. It is now the largest Bay city group, and home to most Residents of Bay City.
For more information, contact: Marianne McCann
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20 amazing places to visit InWorldz, May 2012
- InWorldz Desert Island - The starting point for any new resident. Mentors and friendly people!
- InWorldz Sandbox – (4 regions) - You may build, use SI, test scripts here, but all objects are returned within 2 hours.
- InWorldz Event A, B, C & D – (4 regions) - This is Sim A, the 1st of our four InWorldz Sponsored Events . Watch InWorldz Forum postings, and notices in the official “InWorldz Events Committee Group and postings at InWorldz Desert Island for Upcoming Events Info.
- The Raglan Shire Great Tree - The Tinies of Raglan Shire are growing a City in a Giant Tree! Dances, aos, abranimations, skins, textures, clothing, tiny avatars, art, gestures, fun!
- Equinox - Seasonal Activities, Shops and Residential opportunities in the Magellans
- Morning Coffee - OPEN 24/7 ,, CHAT,, INFO,, FRIENDS.
- Isla Draconia – Land of the Dragons! - The Dragon invasion of InWorldz begins!
- Steam City Unique Mall - Adventure Island, Steam City shops and entertainment . 3 levels of unique one of a kind shops, not just last years cookie cutter mall. Steampunk, Victorian, Grunge, Tinies, Fairies, , Pirate shops & more.
- Talon Faire - Eyelashes, Hair, Skins, Jewelry, Steampunk, Home Decor, FP & C/M anims!. This and more- find it today @ Talon Faire. Romatic Gardens to explore and Mermaid Undersea play! Visit the shrine to Kuan Yin and meditate or pray.
- Full Perm Sculpties - Grand Opening!
- Dragon Isle - Friendly, funny, caring tinies are your hosts on Dragon Isle. We’re here to build, learn, dance, play, and enjoy life. Please do remember that this is a place for every person with a good heart, and we expect that our visitors will follow suit. WAFFLE!
- MOOVILLE- Live* Work *Play – A lovely place to be. Nice folks, great shops , good times. Garden Center, general store, textures , ethnic Skins, Makeup, household decorations, animations.
- Bellissima Square - A Beautiful upscale indoor shopping mall featuring 40 of Inworldz finest creators.
- Gulliver’s Travels – Explore the camp site and have fun
- THE HARBOUR- Live music, dance couples, line dance, entertainment, relax, romantic, fun, outdoor club, blues coundtry, oldies, jazz, open 24/7.
- Shenandoah wildlife & Fisheries - Animal Development Center and Shelter, preserve and store for the adoption of animals for any build.
- The Victoriana Hedgemaze – Explore the amazing tall maze InWorldz
- Echooo’s Wonderland - An Alice In Wonderland themed sim, open to ALL….and we won’t be rude and kick you out if you come to our land exploring!!!
- Clare Island – Eirinn - An Authentic Irish sim featuring MolliMalones Irish bar, with a real Irish Radio station.
- Bali by Bladax - Welcome to Bali, Bali Ballroom and gardens. for sale; furniture, prefab homes stores, kitchens,bathrooms, building supplies, clothing, tatoos, artwork,jewelry,dishes, candles, magical items, places to explore, underwater area for merfolk, come relax.
I signed up to InWorldz on 2nd September 2010 when there was 12, 274 total users, 96 users online and 499 regions on the grid. I was using InWorldz viewer 1.0.0 (10) back then and today i’m using version 1.4.4. I do like to log reqularly into InWorldz and see whats happening in terms of events and news. I love InWorldz because there is a great friendly community, its growing, theres new features being added and the experience has been very good, I’m excited about the future for InWorldz and i’m glad to be apart of one of the popular opensim grids out there today.
Check out my InWorldz collection of SL photos since September 2010.
Are you using InWorldz and what is your experience been like so far?
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Book Island $1000L raffle & fifth anniversary celebrations
Book Island are celebrating their fifth anniversary celebrations this month and they are hosting a series of exciting events to celebrate this amazing milestone in Second Life. There is a $1000L raffle that has just opened on Book Island and there will be a treasure hunt in Second Life.
Folks, Our $1000L raffle has just opened. Come take a chance at the Kick off Raffle that starts our Treasure Hunt, just a part of Book Island’s Fifth Anniversary Celebrations!
Special fifth anniversary celebrations will take place between Saturday 19th May to Saturday 26th May 2012 on Book Island. Check out the exciting event schedule below…
Noob Gallery: SLURL
A display of pictures — How We Looked Back Then
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Tours & Treasure: SLURL
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For the whole month of May we’ll have LimoTours of our Island.
Also, for the whole month, a Big Treasure Hunt with multiple prizes
A snapshot of Book Island dance area where dance parties will take place.
May 19th
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At 1:15pm SLT:
Launch of Official 5th Anniversary Celebrations —
Selina Greene, our owner, will be giving a very special talk about the early days and growth of Book Island. Don’t Miss It!
SLURL
At 2:00pm SLT:
Famed DJ, Izzy Upsilon will begin his Rockin’ Dance. Door Prizes for the best Noob or Pirate costumes
Though Izzy Upsilon comes in many physical variations and varieties, some things never change. One is his talent for producing short pieces of fiction and poetry.
The other is his ability to captivate an audience with his music playing ability in the DJ Booth.
SLURL
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May 23rd
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12:00pm SLT:
Watch a writer at work
Aianna Oh will treat us all to a Live Writing Event. She’ll take some prompts for a Fantasy story from the audience then proceed to write a complete story in text chat!
SLURL
2:00pm SLT – Cocktail/Soiree/Beach/Dance Party!
Fireworks, Beach Sports, Food & Drink.
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May 26th:
2:00pm SLT – Dance with Brendan Shoreland,
Well-known vocalist and guitarist. He’s delivered more than six hundred Second Life performances and has always remained true to his principle that live music should be exactly that. No backing tracks and no special effects; just one voice and one guitar emanating from south-west England.
SLURL
3:15pm SLT – Singer Layna Chrome.
Layna’s voice is that of an angel but don’t take her lightly.
She can get down and dirty on a dime. She’s a full range vocalist with sound waves that resonate to pure delight. This is a must see / hear show. If you’ve ever wondered what this life is for – Layna’s singing is your answer.
SLURL
Upcoming cool SL events during May 2012
Here are some of the many cool events coming up during May 2012 in Second Life that you may be interested in attending. Click the links below for location slurls and more event information. Feel free to comment if you know of any cool events happening in May 2012 and I’ll list them below.
- Every Wednesday at 5pm SLT
- Tune into the 100 Word Stories Podcast and hear some entertaining tales.
- Normally live readings over voice
- Play the media stream for the latest weekly challenge podcast episode. More info at: http://podcasting.isfullofcrap.com.
- Saturday 5th May 2012
- Check timezone times
- This event is ideal if you are into story writing and love listening to stories in Second Life/real life
- 21st April to 5th May 2012
- This event aims to provide information on starting and maintaining Second Life Groups for networking, professional and community use.
- Sunday May 20th 2012
- 12pm to 1:30pm SLT
- Meet at Bandshell in Bay City - Harwich (11, 11, 24)
- Live entertainment at Bay City Fairground in North Channel
- 4th May to 26th May 2012
- Second annual Culture Shock event in Second Life
- Celebrating trends and trendsetters within our business, and incorperating music and art, all with reflections of our own personal first life cultures depicted in our creations.
- May 12th – 13th 2012 – Halfway There Fair 2012
- May 12th – 20th 2012 – Paint SL Purple! 2012
- May 19th – 28th 2012 – Home & Garden Expo 2012
- May 4th – 8th, 2012 – VE Day Celebrations in the London Sims
- May 19th – 20th, 2012- WW2 Conference at the Flying Tiger’s Sims.
- May 20th 2012 – Flying Tiger’s Flyover at the 4th Annual Bay City Anniversary!
- May 25th -May 28th – Memorial Day Weekend Events.
- June 1st – 3rd -Vintage Fashion Weekend.
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Core network maintenance update
Yesterday Linden Lab performed maintenance on the core network for Second Life from 6am SLT for a few hours. The maintenance was finally completed after 9am SLT. As expected there was another SL downtime during this period and I believe many decided to log into OpenSim grids like last Thursday.
[Completed 9:05am PDT, 30 April 2012] The maintenance on our core network has been completed. We are actively working on bringing the final remaining offline regions back online.
[Updated 6:00am PDT, 30 April 2012] We will be beginning our core network maintenance shortly. Please save all builds and refrain from rezzing no copy objects or making inworld L$ transactions. Some residents may experience delays logging inworld.
Check out this SL concurrency graph during the past 24 hours.
Check out this SL concurrency graph during the past week showing the two SL downtimes.
SL grid instability saw two huge peaks during the past week way above normal levels.
Hopefully things will get back to normal in the week ahead and not like 3-4 years ago with downtime Wednesdays etc .
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Reached the 2000 days old mark in Second Life
On 24th April 2012 I reached the 2000 days old milestone in Second Life which is awesome. I have enjoyed my adventures in Second Life so far and its amazing how time just flys past so fast. I’m looking forward to another 1000 days+ and more in Second Life. Yay!
Check out my SL milestones so far!
My Age Detector says…
Daniel Voyager is 2005 Days Old!
- I’m now 2, 005 days old in Second Life
- That’s 5 years and 5 months
- I’m looking forward to my 6th Rezday on 31st October 2012
Thank you to all of my SL friends, followers and fans that I could not survive without in Second Life. *big smiles*
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The Science Fiction Literature Mega Event in Second Life
Apparently there will be a mega science fiction literature event in Second Life which will be happening on Saturday 5th May 2012 at Kafe Kruemelkram, Ataria in Second Life. This event is ideal if you are into story writing and love listening to stories in Second Life/real life. Full event details below and a snapshot of the amazing astronomy location. Its definitely worth visiting and attending next weekend.
The Science Fiction Literature Mega Event:
Five Continent Reading in Second Life
As we say in Germany: Great events throw their shadows ahead.
On May 5th an event will take place in Thorsten Küper’s and Kirsten Riehl’s steampunk location Kafé Kruemelkram that may be unique in the history of Second Life: Five science fiction writers from five continents, all writing in English, will read from their works live. I’ll be honoured to take the part of Europe and read one of my English stories. The invited writers are:For Asia: Guy Hasson (Israel) http://guyhasson.wordpress.com/
For Africa: Jonathan Elorm Dotse (Ghana) http://www.afrocyberpunk.com/
For South America: Gustavo Bondoni (Argentina) http://bondo-ba.livejournal.com/
For North America: Ahmed A. Khan (Canada) http://ahmedakhan.livejournal.com/
For Europe: Michael Iwoleit (Germany) http://iwoleit.wordpress.com/
Will you be attending ?
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Unscheduled maintenance update
Yesterday Linden Lab published an update on the Second Life Grid Status Reports page relating to the long downtime of the grid on Thursday 26th April 2012. This may or not happen again next Monday due to scheduled maintenance to correct the bug that caused the downtime a few days ago.
We will have to see what happens…
[UPDATED 2:30pm PDT, 27 April 2012] On April 26, 2012, the Second Life engineering team was performing an upgrade to the core network. The upgrade triggered a bug that led to downtime and instability throughout the day. The maintenance described in this post is scheduled for Monday, April 30 at 6am PT in order to correct the bug and may result in additional service interruption. We apologize for the service disruption and appreciate everyone’s patience.
SL concurrency levels went down to 10, 885 during the SL unscheduled maintenance on Thursday 26th April 2012 according to the SL Grid Survey which is a surprising low figure. However saying that it’s been much lower in previous years like in 2007 during downtime Wednesdays where the grid was down for many hours. In 2012 there’s around 30, 000 to 65, 000 logged into Second Life at any given point in time.
I would of thought all 10, 885 avatars will be logged off during the SL outrage so perhaps they were AFK, ghosts or something else. A few years ago on 2010-04-29 it went down to 6, 390 then on 2010-04-30 down to 4, 384 which caused a lot of service interruption. Check out the Historical Daily Concurrency graph showing the low peaks since 5th December 2009.
Else where it seemed like the SL community on Thursday were trying to log into opensim grids during the unscheduled maintenance time-frame.
- InWorldz grid saw a rise of 352 (normal 200 – 250)
- OSGrid saw a rise to 196 (normal 140)
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Login failed due to undergoing unscheduled maintenance
It seems like Second Life is offline due to undergoing unscheduled maintenance right now. Latest updates check http://status.secondlifegrid.net/. I have not seen this Login Failed message for a while. On going discussions from the SL community about this can found on Plurk, Twitter, SLUniverse and the SL Forums. Hopefully logins will resume soon!
Problems effecting logins, marketplace orders and SLwebsite services etc.
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SL9B Street Fair and Pub Crawl
This afternoon when I was checking through my SL Facebook friend stream I found out that Brandy Maltas who is one of SL friends published with a few others are in process of co-ordinating their own SL9B event. This will be SL resident supported and this event will be hosted at six well known SL Live Music venues around the grid. This is the first event I have heard about so far for SL9B and i’m sure there will be more in the coming weeks.
- Event title: SL9B Street Fair and Pub Crawl
- Dates: 19th-24th June 2012
- Time: 6pm-9pm SLT
- Musicians: 18+
- Locations: Club Graffiti, Gwampa’s Dance Kamp, Key West, Boom Pony, Ground Zero and San Diego City
Since Linden Lab is not hosting an SL9B (SL 9th B-day Event), Seth Regan/Mankind Tracer in SL and I have decided to co-ordinate our own. The Tracer | Birman Agency will be producing the SL9B Street Fair & Pub Crawl. The event will be held June 19th -24th, 6pm -9pm, at six established and respected SL Live Music venues. Participating venues are: Club Graffiti, Gwampa’s Dance Kamp, Key West, Boom Pony, Ground Zero and San Diego City.
6 Days – 6 venues – 18 Live Musicians!!!
Keep an eye out for more information to come!!!
The SL9B Street Fair and Pub Crawl logo.
Unlike previous SL birthdays, all musicians will be paid. There will be 12 sponsors and 100% of the sponsor money is to pay the musicians which sounds great. This is good news for SL musicians I think and i’m sure more will be interested in this special live music birthday event.
Interested? If you have planned any events/plans for SL9B then feel free to share in comments. I will be blogging SL9B events that will be happening during June 2012. I believe Linden Lab will be adding SL9B community supported events on the Second Life Destination Guide soon.
