I’ve been working and playing in Second Life, and wanted to learn more about building with prims (primitives, the basic building block shapes of the virtual world), so I set myself a little project. I wanted to make some jewelry. To that end, I tried to make a gem-shaped prim and shrink it to an [...]
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there are more things in heaven and earth
I’m deep in research and writing for the Horizon Report, and I am, as always, humbled and amazed by the sheer quantity of stuff that there is in the world, and the sheer number of other people who know a lot about any given bit of it. There are 12 topics on the Short List, [...]
the myth of reuse
Yesterday, during Brian Lamb’s excellent session on mashups, I had a little epiphany. Brian made a throwaway comment about learning object repositories and my mind wandered for a moment, and suddenly a shaft of light pierced the dusty fog in my brain and I realized this truth: reuse isn’t the point. Back in the mists [...]
somewhere in Vancouver
“Please remember, this is a nonsmoking flight. If we find you are smoking, we will ask you to kindly step outside.” – Flight attendant on very, very delayed Alaska Airlines flight, successfully trying to lighten the mood Hello from lovely Vancouver, where it is at least a time zone I recognize (or did, before last [...]
