A friend of mine asked how you can find your SL profile on the web. I knew how to do it before, but somehow I’d forgotten. So I needed to do some research and this is what I found:
1) You need to find you unique name key. I’m sure there are lots of places in worlds you can do that as well as on the web. Here’s one place. Name2Key
2) You need to enter the key in the SL database. My profile Just replace my name key with yours and you’re all set:).
Easy right?
I have land in SL and pay quite a lot for it. A lot for me that is. Most people would probably think it’s only a small parcel but I love it. What happened lately though is that my neighbor sold his land and now all the money chasers moves in. Those who buys and hope to sell it fast for profit. Those who fill their land with lots of ugly for sale boxes. Why can’t they be happy with just one? Why do they needs rows of exactly the same looking ones?
Another group that comes in are the ad people. Those who believes that they can make a profit when people click on their ugly signs. Who does click on those? Not the neighbors anyway. Instead they can drive people away from the land, forcing them to sell off. Already three of my neighbors have left partly because of those ugly ads.
Third groups that comes in are the “firstlanders”. I know there aren’t any first land project anymore, but the need for that exists obviously. The newcomers try out every ugly build they can think of. And they put up privacy screens that makes the whole areal looks like it’s filled with shoe boxes. What are they hiding from? If they are so private, why don’t get a sky box?
Grr, I want my beautiful view back….
I have new summer dresses in the store now. Summer Linen comes in three lovely colours: emerald, ruby and sapphire.
I’m the process of updating my products, checking old ones, closing sales on some of them. I’ve also changed the colour scheme and fonts of my ads.
Another new things is that I’ve divided my products into three departments. You’ll find my updated products here:
Here are a few of my new products:
I’ve had land that I’ve shared with my (RL) sister. It felt really good to have your own place to do whatever you want. Build whatever you want. Everything would have been great if it hadn’t been for two small parcels with 16 sqm land each. Those two parcels destroyed for all the neighbors since they filled them with ugly ads. It wasn’t even enough with privacy screens because the ads were very tall and high up in the sky. Can’t believe it’s OK for only a few persons to destroy for so many.
One neighbor has already sold off partly because of those ads. Two has put the land up for sale and I was thinking about it too. Went “window shopping” for land, but fortunately I didn’t find anything. Fortunately I say because one of the neighbors selling is a really wonderful person. First he offered to give me some land to let me have a more well shaped land. I had to decline since I can’t afford any higher tiers. But then I got this idea. What if we could trade land. He was selling anyway.
He agreed and we met to find a suitable land. We looked at places on his land in the same area as I had and another parcel he had as well. I wasn’t sure. Then he said that he wanted me to see another part of his land. As soon as I saw it, I knew this would be perfect. But I was worried. If it was perfect for me, then it would be perfect for a potential buyer. I asked if he was sure, and he said he was. He wanted me to have it. The next day, when he had removed his objects I got the land. He even made sure that he took over my land first, before I got his, so I wouldn’t need to pay tiers for the traded land. What a good person. Thanks Jed:).
I placed my two cottages and the new gallery/store I built. The new building hadn’t fitted the old land so it was the first time I had it out, except for the sandbox where it was built. I had prims left for trees, bushes, flowers and even a fountain. The new land has turned into a small paradise and I’m so happy. The gallery is at the first floor and the store is one floor up:)
I used to have my own gallery. Or rather me and my partner used to have one together. When I found the place I felt it was the most wonderful gallery I’ve ever seen. The couple that had the gallery was really nice and helpful and we felt we were part of the community.
Then one day, one of the owners wanted us to have an art show in the big gallery. We did, to help out. Our show had been scheduled for July, but since no one could make it in such a short notice we agreed to do it. There was so much to do before the show. Everything seemed too short notice, the advertisement, the textures and of course the music.
We even had to build a lot of the art pieces in the big gallery. But in the end we managed to finish it. The show was a success. We got interviewed by a journalist that the owners had arranged to come there. I was so happy. To have managed to fix it all in time and that the show itself turned out so good.
But after the show things begin to change. The show was going to be up for a month. Really soon one of the owners asked me if it was OK for us to remove parts of the show. I didn’t like it but of course I said it was ok. I was given a date when I had to remove it, but the day before that everything got dumped into my inventory.
I am home all day since i am on sick leave, so if it had been a change of plans then why couldn’t they have asked me to come in and removed it one day early? I felt thrown out. Maybe I was just being over sensitive, but that’s how I felt. What if parts have been lost when they sent it back? And I wanted to put them in the right folders if I’d ever use that art piece again.
In the end we spent less and less time at the gallery. It never felt the same after that. And when the rent was up and the art show taken down, we stopped paying the rent. We were planning to tell the owners, try to explain, but the minute one of them came online we got kicked out of the group. They didn’t say anything to us, and one of the owners took me off his friends list.
I don’t know what happened, but I do miss what we had at that gallery, at the community there. It’s still one of the most beautiful places in SL. The owners seemed to be a great couple. But what we had there is lost forever. I hope I’ll find something like that again.
Oh I know it might be hard to remember how it was to be a newbie. When we wore boxes on our heads;), had trouble walking or didn’t know how to find your way around. I remember since I used to keep a diary. Not for long though, just those first weeks before I felt more confident about myself and my Second Life:)
This is my personal experiences. Enjoy;)
I have been a resident of Second Life for almost 2 years now. When I joined I was really lucky. I met some really nice persons that helped me a lot. Now I want to give something back to the community. I applied for and got accepted as an official mentor of Second Life. So far it’s been so rewarding helping new residents finding their way in this wonderful 3D communty:)
Here is lesson nr two in my little mini computer school.
‘Can I have your Hotmail address?’ Recognize the question? I’m sure you do. It doesn’t mean, as you might think, a wish to have that person’s Hotmail address. No, it simply means any email address at all, except for their work email or (if they’re students) the university email address.
Actually, believe it or not, there are plenty of other email providers. Web based and those that can be set up to send your email straight to your own mail program.
That’s the next word that might need explaining. You can get your email sent straight ‘home’ to your computer. The web based accounts can be accessed in a web browser (see the last lesson). If you want, you can also get a email address with what is called Pop Access. It means that if you can overcome the difficulties in setting up your mail program, your email will come straight to your mail box (on your computer).
Here’s a little personal opinion: you might need more than one email address. What will you do if your email account isn’t working anymore? If you can’t send or receive emails? Or – in some cases – you can’t even access your old emails?
Besides, you might want to keep some friends and acquaintances separate. Or you might want to sign up for some newsletters (of course they’re usually more or less all commercial and who would expose themselves to that voluntarily?)
So you get yourself a few mail accounts – maybe two or three. That’s usually enough for most people.
Though if you’re the kind of person who takes pride in only checking your email once every three months, just forget about having an email address. You won’t be accessible so you should stop claiming to be. Your friend might actually think that means they might be able to reach you at your email address.