Here are some more screenshots! 
Going to add the ability to start your own group IMs tomorrow (hopefully), among other things. 
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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. 
I present evidence of the state of the TG. These actually come from the forum, but are generally representative of the in-world experience too. Interestingly, this directly contradicts a post Blue made about two hours after I produced these. Hmm.
Dear Linden Lab,
It’d be really nice if we could have a beta grid. Please could this theoretical beta grid also include a mono sim.
Many thanks,
The TG
It’s always fun to watch performance graphs for the sandboxes – especially combat sandboxes. Here are a few:
Here are two combat sims – Bannockburn is actually a resident-owned combat sim, but is incredibly unpopular.
A standard sandbox:
By comparison, here’s the one I have my chunk of land in:
It’s not really as suitable for servers as my PI was. Since my PI no longer exists, that’s largely besides the point.
Note that all of these graphs are live-updating, so they’re going to change. If they happen to be stable when you read this, trust me that it’s an anomaly.
Holidasy: I’m on holiday. As such, I’m somewhat less likely to get any messages you try to send me. Next week I won’t get any at all. Sorry about that.
Development: AjaxLife’s source has now been commented, at least to some degree. Client-side’s done, server is still to do. I have some nice things to add in the near future as well. Stability is a work-in-progress.
Stuff: A couple of days ago someone told me “Nobody would care if I called you Meredith.” – this may well be true, but it seems a somewhat random comment. In any case, it’s one of the few things from two days ago I actually remember, so I decided to put it down here.
Oh, and running WindLight on my laptop gives me the following highly encouraging message:
It still manages to run faster than the standard client anyway, so meh. (20 FPS instead of 12 – with “Low” settings. Or 12 with “medium” + local lights.
Oh, more stuff: TSL Profiles is back. I’m going to put up some help pages in the new future so people can work out how to use it.
UPDATED: Torley’s fixed this, apparently. Yays! Thank you!
I seem to have been banned from the SL forum without any notice or explanation. I can still log into SL though.
How strange.
I’ve made a JSON-based interface to the new SL search, which provides access to all data available (I think).
All the methods have the base URL http://services.katharineberry.co.uk/search/.
Firstly, the search itself. This provides acccess to either MG or TG search, and provides information about all results on the page. It also supports specifying a page.
The format is as follows:
http://services.katharineberry.co.uk/search/search/(teen|main|mature)/search+string[/page-number]
The /page-number must be an integer, and is optional. If you use “teen” you get TG results, “main” gives MG results, and “mature” gives MG results with mature enabled. The output, assuming you know what JSON is, is fairly self-explanatory.
Additionally, you can access a bunch of other data:
http://services.katharineberry.co.uk/search/classified/required-uuid
http://services.katharineberry.co.uk/search/place/required-uuid
http://services.katharineberry.co.uk/search/resident/required-uuid
http://services.katharineberry.co.uk/search/region/required-uuid
http://services.katharineberry.co.uk/search/event/eventid
http://services.katharineberry.co.uk/search/group/required-uuid
Excluding events, all of the above expect a UUID in place of “required-uuid”. They can take both hyphenated and unhyphenated UUIDs. Events expect an Event ID, which are currently seven digit integers.
It can also pick out up to the top 100 popular places (I could do more – up to 50,000 – but capped it at 100 to save my server from certain death). The format for this is as follows:
http://services.katharineberry.co.uk/search/popular/(main|teen)/count
Using “main” gets MG data, “teen” gets TG data. “count” specifies the number of results to be returned.
Finally, as a bonus feature, if you have a key and have no idea what it’s for, put it in like this:
http://services.katharineberry.co.uk/search/unknown-uuid
This will make it search through the classifieds, parcels, residents, regions, events, groups, and textures. If it’s any of the above (except textures) it’ll return the same output as the standard services, with the added property “uuidtype” being set to one of the above. If it was a texture you only get the uuidtype. Please note that this takes several seconds to run, and is a relatively heavy job for my server.
I hope someone finds some use for this. Personally, I plan to use it in AjaxLife.
// Include region and x/y position, not for the GSA, but // just to get logs on the web server for search_proxy.php // showing where people were standing when they searched.
What possible use do LL have for this data? What would you do if you knew where people searched for what?
I can’t see any, myself.
Side note: GSA probably stands for Google Search Appliance.
By semi-popular demand, AjaxLife is running again. I assume it works – all I get is the highly useful error “Your account has been disabled. Please visit www.secondlife.com to renew your membership.” – but that’s to be expected, given I cancelled the account.
So there you go. Development is somewhat hard, given I can’t log in. But it’s running. I also finally managed to get around to repairing the login screen, which also no longer relies on strange proxying things.
It’s also been repeatedly suggested that I should uncancel my account. I won’t do so, for two reasons – firstly, I am not aware of anywhere I can go without being harassed by people like Shawn (see his earlier comments before he was auto-blacklisted). Secondly, it’d cost money. I wouldn’t object to that if I actually had good reason to pay it, but I don’t.
Also, still no idea what I’m going to do instead. But also no idea what I’d do if I was there, so… >.>
