The offending code has since been removed, but Google has it cached (update: Modular Systems got this cache removed); if you don’t feel like visiting this page (which will, incidentally, cause you to also load these pages), look at this screenshot instead.

Even if you accept Emerald’s “boasting” claim, in this claim they refer to the targeted site as malicious. Why in their right mind would they force all their users to load a malicious site without telling them? Thirty-two times, for that matter.

Emerald has a tendency to attract drama. Much of it is unwarranted. I feel that this, however, crosses the line.

Going to add the ability to start your own group IMs tomorrow (hopefully), 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.

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

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.

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.

I seem to have been banned from the SL forum without any notice or explanation. I can still log into SL though.

How strange.

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.

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.