March 20th, 2008

Hello,

So I have scheduled a meeting at 11.00 with someone who sounds like she very much knows her way around Second Life. I'm nervous and have been trying to figure out voice chat in advance of the meeting so that I don't look like a complete nerd. It's not working and whilst playing with fullscreen and window mode (goaded into it by my shiny new 'Second Life for Dummies' book), I've just crashed Second Life altogether. And now the crash logger has hung.

So I'm editing preferences. It's all about computing resources. How far do you want to see? What kind of resolution do you want? How to deal with lag? It's all very technical. One option is "Show Avatar in Mouselook" (p. 27) and apparently with this you can look down and see yourself. Apparently, a lot of people go for this for the added immersion. It can give you a doppler effect.

I.C. has just joined me for a chat. Very exciting for me and fun. I'm feeling like a bit of an anthropologist. He is a newbie too. Stole his avatar from his son. He's Spanish.

A guy with a clothes shop has offered me friendship and is going to offer me a teleport? I am so in over my head. I got a teleport to Zora. He sells mainly underwear.

I kill some time, then I join Fli. We're learning stuff from her. She's very good. This morning's adventures have come in very handy. I have learned how to IM, how to add friends, how to teleport etc. It's all good.

So sin e for now folks