Had a bit of time last night world domination continues

Everyone went to bed very well last night. So I did a quick Second Life update, read and listened to the Reuters article with Mitch Kapor and then dived into Eve-online for a relaxing hour or so. It was that or viva pinata on the xbox 360, but I wanted to save that as Sophie is enjoying it.


Anway the eightbar corporation has now been created in Eve. I may have been a little bit premature as I ended up renting a very cheap office for us and the corp has 1 member so far!


Its based over at the Unel IX Chemal Tech Factory in the Sing Laison region (apparently).



I had a conversation recently about pinky and the brain with a fellow eightbar in Second Life activist sparked by the a common appreciation of Black Adder and Monty Python


The cartoon's famous tagline is: "Come Pinky, we must prepare for tomorrow night" "Gee, Brain, what are we doing tomorrow night?" "The same thing we do every night Pinky — Try to take over the world!" which is something I used to play on my desktop theme back when I started on web project in 1997.

So look out world :-)

Hmmm, not sure what to do now in limbo

We have spent the evening rating and timing various contraction like movements. The need to do something, timing them writing them down is really a replacement for not being able to help a lot. Something is certainly happening but Jan has gone to bed now having sat up waiting for it all to start properly.
So once again I guess I will sparking up Eve( No long missions though.) and a bit of work in Second Life, Snapzilla/Flickr etc whilst I am on standby. I certainly cant risk going to sleep too early!
So apologies to family and friends out there. At the time of writing its not likely to be today and I have given up predicting anything.
I almost did not bother writing this post, but I know if I dont some people will assume we are all systems go for the baby.

This could be it?

I was busy pushing my 900+ Second Life snapzilla shots over to flickr as a historical record of 2006. I had to stop that and I was busy helping Andy with his mega yacht in Second Life on Hursley, when Jan said. oooooh that was a longer contraction.
So we could be on for tonight. Of course we have had false alarms the last few days, but he must be wanting to get out.
I was joking with Jan that I needed to make sure I had some skills training on Eve, that take a long while. So, thats what I am doing now.

We are still waiting for baby linden

It has been a day of trying to distract ourselves. Sophie was off with her Nanny and Grandad today. That left Jan and I to go for a walk, though not a very long one.
Biggest alarm was Sophie falling out of bed, a big thump just now upstairs.
So it meant the rest of the day spent trying to wait.
Jan spent time on here favourite game of all time. Zuma. So yes I have to own up any achievements on the Z game are not mine on the 360.
I spent an ridiculous amount of time on Eve. I actually managed to get somewhere. A long way to go, but it is a great, not too stressful way to spend the time. It does not need a heads down focus all the time. Though I do think I need to spark up Rainbow Six:Vegas and do something a bit more focussed.

False alarms on the increase plus more Eve talk

We have had a few predlet false alarms. The egg is still being sat on though. The latest was 3/4 hours worth at 5am. Jan was not phased by it and did not bother to try and wake me up. However its progress. It will obviously have to happen eventually!
Many things in life are plannable, start dates, exams, meetings, weekends etc. Organic things like this though are just that in their timing.
I have been filling time with both lots of work around Second Life (obviously) at all times of the day and night and with Eve online.
Eve, and most MMO's and RPG's are great becuase you can spend a lot of time travelling and not really doing much. Tinkering, upgrading approach as mission/quest etc. This is great for relaxation though you can throw yourself into things.
The more I play Eve-online the more I am enhancing my set of anecdotes as to why Second Life worked when it did for me. Second Life has no levelling up. if you want to go and meet people it is purely social skills and time that you spend to get to know whats going on. Sure you spend a large amount of time attending things, or learning to build things but it dos not require you to have spent several weeks training skills to allow you to do a certain thing.
I need to write a proper piece on this with some more analysis of the quantifiable differences, but I have skills to train and a new ship to buy.
So come on baby Linden, save me from this addiction.

Eve-online, Elite with people?

So it looks like eve online is going to get me in its grip. It is of course completely different to anything in SL. Whilst its social, the role play and level up aspects cant be ignored.
I blame Roo for this one who in turn blames Mark Wallace, whom we got know through Second Life so wheels within virtual wheels.
As someone who hits games mostly on the Xbox 360 now and in shortish bursts, occasionally dipping bakc into old ones, but chasing the latest fix it wil be interesting to see if the Upstairs PC nature of this can fit into the life with 2 kids when the baby arrives.