I haven’t been very good about Tablet PC updates lately. Guess I’m in what you’d call the second year Tablet PC owner hardware blues mode. I can just see and hear somebody inking virtual violins in the distance.

However, this mode hasn’t prevented me from continuing to explore inking possibilities in new places. Check out the screenshot above of me in Second Life inking, er painting I mean, on a large 3D virtual canvas: yes, yes, yes.

This is from a program my friend referred to as “The Wand” and I understand it sells for L$15,000 (about $50USD) in world. If anybody is interested in buying this program then send me an IM and I’ll ask my friend who showed this to me who to buy this from (not my program so please forgive the lack of details). It does many more things besides the painting shown here, it basically sits in an area and allows people to summon interactive items out of the sky. Like we summoned these bubbles and you can get inside the bubbles and ride them up into the sky looking around the world below. There is also a giant and very realistic eagle you can get on and fly around on.

For those who are into Second Life feel free to drop by my new store: TD Scripts inside SL (SLurl) — my name is TD Goodliffe, BTW (just think good life, but with an extra ‘f’) — it just opened. And for my blogging friends in particular if you look upstairs in the building to the immediate right of the store you might just find something I’ve been working on interesting …

To find our store in world, just do a search for “TD Scripts” inside the find places inside SL or you can follow the SLurl above.

I write regularly about my SL experiences (so far that has consisted of building, running and promoting a business in SL) at our VTOR group blog. VTOR stands for Virtual TO Reality, see past Hmm entry for more details. Yesterday our very first group blogging payments were made — in Lindens of course — and I made L$148 for my blog posts made during the month of March.

Meeting others from the web in SL
I’ve also talked to a few web folks like Eric Rice who gave me some props the other day for opening my virtual store on his blog (thank you). It took me a little more than 90 days to buy land, learn enough of the Linden Scripting Language (LSL) and in world building tools to make my first product and create a store presence complete with advertising.

As of this writing, I have only one product officially to sell, a game, but am working on more. I actually have three products that I have created and sold (two are unofficial products, but available to those ask me about them): a security camera that moves and reports back who is in a designated perimeter on land (I use this to tell me who is stopping by my store), a timer for games and the dice cube game. The cube is listed on both the major web to SL marketplaces: slexchange and slboutique, and I blogged my experiences over at VTOR about these as well. Customers who have purchased the cube have been very happy so far and it received a five star user rating at slexchange.

This has been a rewarding and exciting learning process so far. I was telling one of the members of our group that this was the most fun I’ve had learning something programming-related in a long time. There are a few downsides and quirks like it can be slow building and scripting in world as opposed to more traditional development environments, especially when Linden Labs is having technical difficulties. Unfortunately that was happening to me last night when I wanted to do some scripting on a couple projects. Fortunately, that has been fairly rare to date.

I still have much to learn, especially in the social areas, events and activities of the world. Fortunately, some other members in our VTOR group are checking into this scene. One of our group got married, choosing me as his best man, and within a month the virtual marriage turned into divorce. Maybe that’s a bad sign for me making a career out of being a virtual best man.

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