Winter Solstice 2008

Today it’s winter solstice. Day in the northern hemisphere is shortest in whole year and past polar circle the sun doesn’t rise at all. On the other hand, situation on the southern hemisphere is completely opposite, the day is longest and past polar circle, the sun doesn’t set.

From now on, the days will be getting longer (or shorter if you happen to be on the southern hemisphere), until in half a year the situation has reversed itself. Days in north are long and in south they are short. In halfway to there, there is spring equinox, when day and night are equally long.

What does this have to do with Second Life? Not much, except that my neat little geocentric model shows the situation nicely (two pictures after the break) ;P

If you are living north and dislike darkness, remember that from now on the days will be getting longer and summer getting closer. And if you happen to be at south, now it’s time to enjoy the long days and short nights.

New Area in Second Life

In posting in the official blog Lindens announced that a new city area has been discovered. In the forums (registration required), there are users discussing about the place. Also some nice screen shots have been posted in the thread. I had a brief fly around the place today and must say that the place looks really nice. Soon there will be auction and people will have opportunity to buy land there. Now it’s the last chance to have a look around, before new buildings are built.

Dragons

Today I saw something really neat in-world, a dragon by Seawolf Monsters. There has been lots of different kinds of dragons in-world, some good and some less good. But these ones are really the best ones I have ever seen. There are loads and loads of options and configuration possibilities and at-least two different forms (full dragon and a anthropomorphic version). The HUD even allows user to save different setups, so it’s easy to switch between different colour schemes.

So, hop on their place at Aggro sim and have a look by yourself.

A blog

So, I finally got around to actually make a Second Life related blog and post some stuff into it. Pretty much everything that I’m currently selling in-world, XStreet SL or onrez are now listed in the blog and even in more or less correct order. Idea is that if I have lots of stuff listed in one place, maybe people will see something that sparks their interest. Also, it’s fun to see how things have evolved over the time. My first product pictures are really bad compared to new ones. It’ll be interesting to see if I still make progress in that area.

In addition of just making this a catalog of my stuff, I’ll try to post now and then about stuff in general. It probably will always be something about Second Life.