(Note: This post is slightly premature, because the third phase of the project hasn’t actually ended yet – it still has another month to run. However, I don’t feel this is likely to make much difference. WordPress screwed up and wiped the second half of the post, forcing me to rewrite it. Also, it’s rather dull, as is everything I write.)
So, after leaving, returning, leaving, returning, leaving, and returning to/from this project, it seems that it has finally decided to die. By which I mean that all attempts to obtain funding have failed, they’re running out, and they can’t afford staff. I can’t say I’m going to miss it much. In all honesty, the project didn’t die because of a lack of funding – instead, it died due to the lack (or, more accurately, the ignorance) of a coherent vision. This is a problem for a project with the stated intent of trying to work out how to make an idea work – so far, all it has to show for it is that it doesn’t, mostly because the management over-compromise to make their vision fit in.
The third phase of the project was, apparently, formed with the purpose of discovering what happens when you add school to the mix – a mix with the slogan “not school – not home – schome.” You basically get school. In fact, that’s exactly what you get. Complete with deadlines, grades, pressure from teachers, and rushed homeworks.
Continue reading ‘Schome Park the Third’
Here are some more screenshots! 
Going to add the ability to start your own group IMs tomorrow (hopefully), among other things. 
Coming soon, among other things:
Other changes so far include significantly improved behaviour of those text boxes on the map (they now reflect what the map thinks you want), marking of the map beacon on the minimap (as a red mark), and assorted refactoring. Wee!
Coming once I’m done adding stuffs. 
Published on 23rd of April, 2008
in AjaxLife.
Currently, AjaxLife uses the same shortcut as Second Life for instant messages – Ctrl-T. However, this is also used by most browsers to create a new tab, and is thus really annoying (I want a new tab, not an IM window!)
So, does anyone have any suggestions for alternate key bindings to use instead?
Published on 23rd of April, 2008
in Blog.
Of minor interest is that the homepage previously at http://katharineberry.co.uk now just redirects to http://blog.katharineberry.co.uk, as most of the content there was outdated or defunct – and there was never much there in the first place. Anything else at katharineberry.co.uk (if anything) still works.
Ah well.
Published on 20th of April, 2008
in AjaxLife.
AjaxLife will (well, should) now function from behind a corporate (or, indeed, any other) proxy, even under IE6. This does, of course, assume that the proxy is not blocking AjaxLife or something.
This was a very common issue, but it should now be fixed. Hooray!
I haven’t actually posted anything in a while. This is because during holidays I take a break from doing anything productive whatsoever.
AjaxLife updates will resume soonish, as soon as I get the backlog of schoolwork out of the way – although development will remain sluggish until mid-June or so, when I’m finished with all my exams and such. But IE6-in-corporate-environment users, I have not forgotten you! Stay tuned for fixes!
Oh, and I have a fancy new computer. Woohoo. Here’s a nice pair of screenshots:
Or, at least, here would be a nice pair of screenshots if WordPress 2.5′s upload facility wasn’t broken with calls to ctype_digit (which doesn’t exist) – what’s wrong with is_numeric (in fact, the patch to rectify the error just replaces all instances of ctype_digit with is_numeric – but I’m far too lazy to do that myself)?
Anyway. Blah blah blah. Exams suck, coursework moreso. Also, this is the first post with tags attached in a while.
For trademark policy-related reasons, several websites of mine will be removed once Linden Lab’s 90 day grace period is up. I really do not have the time or interest to go about jumping nonsensical legal hoops.
The sites closing are the following:
- TSL Profiles
- TSL Blogs
- TSL Emporium (which was defunct anyway)
Additionally, a couple of other projects I was working on are cancelled. The Teen SL Blog has moved to
teenmetaverse.net.
Thank you, Linden Lab, for obliterating months of work. It is appreciated. I hate you people (or at least whoever came up with this stupid idea.)
