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The always amusing Warren Ellis has a story filed with Reuters about pretty much everything Second Life recently, from the hoofrah over “Resident” numbers to the phallocentric attack on Anshe Chung. There are two dominant perceptions of Second Life right now. Due to what some see as clever presentation of

Tobold has a canceled World of Warcraft account (being one of them Eurotypes he migrated to closer shores when the European servers opened), so he received (and helpfully reposted) Blizzard’s mash note to ex-subscribers. Blizzard Entertainment proudly invites you to return to the World of Warcraft on January 16th

Vivendi Denies Battlestar Galactica MMO, Sort Of Note that these kind of denials almost always mean “well yeah, but we’re not announcing it until our big coming out party in a month.”

Well, my blog certainly is running slowly this morning! Hm, let’s log into the shell and see what’s up. Note for those who don’t speak Unix: those numbers are load averages. And should be less than 1. Hmm. Why is the server so overloaded? Maybe my email

Apparently the comment preview thingamabob was freezing the page for some folks so it’s toast. Edit: hmm… actually with some IE7 testing, it seems the problem is that IE7 doesn’t like gzip-compressed pages. Or at least the way WordPress sends them. Disabling that fixed it. Let me know

We choose to place a giant banana in geostationary orbit in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

Damion has a link to the apparently announced Battlestar Galactica Online – one of the few product announcements I can handily pass off to a previous blog entry! “Dude, this game sucked since the New Caprica expansion. The devs have clearly never flown Raptors.” On the other hand, this will be