Rustica is wonderful

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I was introduced to this place called Rustica, a lovely castle apparently built outside of SL in maya or something, rendered mostly as sculpties and sophisticated use of prims. The music track that was on when I snapped this was particularly enjoyable. I encourage you all to visit!

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sony vaio vgn-p530ch doesnt run second life

Hello there second lifers! here with a review of the Sony VGN-P530CH, my latest little netbook.

First of all let me say, I love this computer. It is tiny, has a very high resolution screen, and has a nice, big keyboard. I bought it because my Acer Aspire one had just a bit less screen resolution than I could use for work purposes (coding in flash requires I have quite a few windows and inspectors available onscreen so 1024x768 just wasnt cutting it.

Its the smallest full fledged laptop I have ever seen, weighing in at 1.4 pounds and literally fitting easily in my pants pocket (I wear loose pants with large pockets, not fitting jeans or anything) and it also fits easily in my jacket inside pocket.

So for work, checking emails, programming flash, java, html, and doing facebook/social network stuff, blogging, and doing web graphics its more than adequate. I wish it was running XP but I fully plan on upgrading to windows 7 which according to reviews is much faster than vista.

Now the bad news. SL WONT RUN on it! It does run sluggish on my acer aspire, but it runs, and I have done public meetings and voice meetings on the aspire one without any problems as long as im not panning around that much and people in the room are nice enough to keep their attachments in check. I had hoped to see Second Life on this machine, but alas it has a intel "500" chip set and SL doesnt support anything below a 945 chipset for intel. What a drag.

In my last code handyman blog, I mentioned that SL is irrelevant for most people. I can run facebook, ning, blogger, google, digg, wikipedia, webmail, adobe CS3 and the big pig AKA windows vista on this sub $1000 net book, but not SL. Were there ways of decoupling friends, group chat, voice chat, and the 3d rendering options I probably could still go in world, attend a concert, mabey see people as 2d avatars or get screenshots once in a while rather than a full 3d reprsentation and thus still be able to participate in SL on my netbook. I can leave things like building and viewing huge particle displays to my desktop happily, but If I need to go to a virtual meeting for work in SL, Id happily forgo the live 3d rendering just to participate.

Anyway, I still recommend the vaio P if you find the acer aspire too low resolution and want something far more powerful than an iphone because hey, typing an internet address into an iphone SUCKS!

I think the vaio P (to my chagrin) has a new one already out in Japan that has a much faster processor and SSD hard drive instead of the disk on this one, but it still appears to be the intel 500 graphics so no soap on this for the year. But, it makes this a bit easier on me with Sony's 6 month no interest plan, so I can pay it off over that time in manageable chunks, and then in 8 months or so sell this one to a less "power user" and move on to the latest and greatest. I am so happy to live in a time when cutting edge technology like this is actually affordable, and not $3700 like the old "pocket vaio" one of my staff got as a bonus back in 2003!

Thanks for reading! See you in world, but not on my Sony VGN-P530CH ;)

A tutorial on integrating second life visuals with the regular old web

NEW!!! Added a tutorial that shows how to integrate Second Life with Flash and the web (not live but looks pretty good!)

Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Teal Book of Trust is out

Please check out Jeffrey GItomers new Little Book of Trust. Its really great, will change your life, and supports my very existence too! Trust me! We made an info center in SL on our island, check it out!

Jeffrey Gitomer is an acclaimed author, speaker, and business guru. It is an absolute honor to work with him, and he is a great friend and teacher for me. We have worked together for over 5 years now at TrainOne, and as an employer and person who rewards passion and excellence, he always gets the best of everything.

Please visit www.gitomer.com and our online training website www.trainone.com and see what all the fuss is about!

New Build on my Island Sunnyvale Trailer Park

NEW BUILD!!! Im working on rebuilidng sunnyvale trailer park in SL, even though someone else already did it (but unfortunately isnt currently online). Here is a picture, and here is a SLURL. Incedentally, Ive been helping john dunsworth with his websites, hence the project.

A lot of help from Mitch Lahey from over at TrailerParkBoys.org, I mean, seriously, that guy has built pretty much everything from the show. I havent been able to even rez it all yet. He is incredibly talented and dedicated. You blew Pat and John away when I showed them your stuff!

Cypress Rosewood Dedicates an Album to my Island in Second Life

Cypress Rosewood (Tony Gerber) makes an album on Tree Estates! Be sure to buy it!

I have to say, it was an amazing and incredible honor to have this happen. How many people can say they had an album inspired by their sculpture? In my case "digital sculpture" on my virtual island. The Album is wonderful and I really am honored to have Cypress as a friend.

Please visit the "cypress rosewood auditorium" in SL when you next are in world!

Thanks so much!
Tree Kyomooon

Tree Kyomoon in the SL Wiki

tree kyomoon at the SL Wiki: view

Tree Kyomoon with Torley Linden

tree kyomoon with Torley Linden: view

Tree on When Worlds Collide with Cypress Rosewood

tree kyomoon on "When Worlds Collide" with cypress rosewood: view

A Very Nice Photo of Tree by Torley Linden

a very nice photo of Tree by Torley Linden: view

A Very Nice Photo of Tree by Torley Linden

a very nice photo of Tree by Torley Linden: view

Tree in the Secondlifeinsider

tree in the secondlifeinsider: view

Tree kyomoon's first mention in the SL Blog!

tree kyomoon's first mention in the SL Blog: view

Tree Kyomoon's Conversation

Im all about conversation now. Im changing my site to a conversation instead of a me me me me.

I'll be in SL as much as I can but with all these blogs, facebook pages, websites, and stuff...its overwhelming even for me, a virtual skeleton!


Special thanks to all these folks in a relatively random order for making SL a great place for me. I can specifically remember sharing very deep and meaningful conversations or had some experience that meant a lot with their contributions to SL over the past few months...it blows me away how many people Ive met and become good friends with in SL:

cypress rosewood prince alexandria stellaa francis janford flax spiral sands peter millionsofus bodhi kojima fenelisge pfohl phoenix pfohl wyn galbraith jana kyomoon zha ewry

seifert surface timeless prototype luciftias neurocam gigs taggart tateru nino bushing spatula jeffrey gomez morgaine dinova prokofy neva eddy stryker origin rang cheen pitney flea bussy adam zaius katharine berry strife onizuka tao takashi mic bowman simon gibbs dr schofield

drfran babcock rocket sellers jet burns troy mcluhan trefies kaufman bibi book nnoiz papp aldoManutio Abruzzo ashcroft burnham aurel miles intlibber brautigan jayr cela fla canto mysticalone writer reina beaumont revolution perenti rickoshea courier sendao goodman thomas shikami wolkam winger zarta vargas angel fluffy apollo wei astrophysicist mccallister atheist newchurch audio zenith burhop piccard charlemagne allen decca mah

desideria stockton devery barrymore doit foulon dreamingen writer feng willis gus plisskin daizyrazorblade brody lester partch lludmila mirrikh lyndell aleixandre lyr lobo

madcow cosmos mickey james morgana fillion morris vig olive otoole pro154 woodget

professor blackmountain punksatawney pickles rex cronon rizpah galatea rodney lee jessop vanilla jessop saijanai kuhn sean cinquetti semolina semaphore shamus mahoney simple roux sloan skjellerup stetson rail sunshine sugarbeet temptor redgrave von johin woody blair

prince chapman intlibber brautigan ollie kubrick fallingwater cellardoor torin golding

renouf frobozz titanium paperclip

and of course all these lindens:

iridium linden zero linden torley linden rob linden andrew linden philip linden coco linden robin linden blue linden jack linden liana linden chadrick linden jeska linden phoenix linden don linden which linden adrian linden benjamin linden daniel linden bridie linden olive linden