In a Strange Land

I had the pleasure of attending a "Sharp Viewpoints" event on my old employer's campus, where Dr. Kevin Hallock , university P...

  We lost the vote in Goochland County; 4 of 5 Supervisors voted to approve a Technology Overlay District (TOD) and Technology Zone that cou...

Note to readers: A version of this post will be submitted to our Board of Supervisors as a formal letter, as well as to a local news outl...

I have told my students, ever since early 2023, "add value to AI content if you want a job." It seems that recent Computer-Science...

Location: Back at VWER Roundtable How odd it feels to be blogging again, ever so briefly, about Second Life. I have returned to the vir...

Location: Thinking about a new SL Road Trip I admit that I have had a morbid interest in watching the slow decline in the number of p...

Though I did get an A+ in the one statistics class I was forced to take (and perversely, enjoyed immensely) I'm no number-cruncher. ...

Location: SL Marketplace As I prepare my swan-song teaching in SL (at least for the foreseeable future) I made some changes to the set...

Location: Fearzom sim, beside my old abandoned 1024 plot After reading about the closure of two Japanese-themed sims , plus a string of ...

  Location: Second Life Marketplace I'm not fond of Second Life Marketplace. It makes the virtual world less a world. I do use it for...

Location: Duck, Cover, Rant Especially when, in her blogger profile picture, she sports a tiara. My loose-cannon mouth has gotten me in t...

Location: PayPal Even if the International Spaceflight Museum leaves Second Life for more edu-friendly spaces in OpenSim, they need ass...

Here we have the results from 35 recipients who took the poll. Last year, I did leave the poll open longer, and as a result in 2011 I had 10...

Last year, in the wake of the decision by Linden Lab, I posted a poll of educators and those in the non-profit sector. The results can be ...

  Location: Jeepers Shoe Store Surrounded by well dressed female avatars at the recent VWER meeting, I realized that my shoes are SO 200...

Location: Prognosticating I see a very different shadow from the dynamic ones in the new viewer. Some weeks, every other post by Hamlet A...

Location: 5th and Oxford Main Store With this week's conference, Virtual Worlds: Best Practices in Education looming, I felt an ove...

Location: Waiting for my apple pie image credit: public-domain image from Wikipedia The BBC carries this story today about the "c...

Location: Richmond Island As I took a last look at Richmond Island (today Linden Lab takes back the parcel) I also opened my reader to lo...

Location: Using Google's System to Talk About It This post begins a series to coincide with my Spring 2011 course, Cyberspace: History...