I also put out the Ping.fm HUD as GPL v3 open source software.  You can get the whole package in Baird in world or download the main LSL program from Google Docs.  It’s complete except the Ping.FM API key to make it work is missing.  That’s a private key you can get for free from Ping.fm.  A nomod copy of the same script is located in Baird with the key in it.

I made it GPL v3, which of course, is slightly viral.  So, if you use the code, you have to cough up the source code on request – better yet – leave the source you use full perms.  I think there’s a shortage of code for LSL out there that’s non-trivial.  More is better.

There was a mistake I had made with the updater that I never got around to fixing which probably annoyed people.  This version doesn’t have the updater in it and thus, not annoying.  It’s also not the greatest code, but it works – or at least it did.

It’s a useful little script for chattering with things like Twitter or Facebook without having to reprogram an API for each one.  It would be easy to add to a variety of in world products to communicate to the rest of the Innertubes….

-Veyron

As many of you have noticed, I have not been updating this blog, nor have I been online in Second Life very much, if at all, for most of 2009.  I’ve been delaying making this post in hopes that it was not true, but it’s time to call a spade a spade.  Veyron is moving into a semi-retirement.  No, I don’t plan to derez, but it is time to put Veyron to sleep for a while.  Rather than dwelling on my real life motives for such a move, I thought I would just reflect on what has been and what might be.

I was able to make it in-world a while ago for a blogger party.  I saw a few old faces, but lots of new faces whom I had never seen before.  I’ve also noticed that the Second Life fashion world has passed me by, and I don’t think I want to get back into the fashion again.  Another SL friend of mine, Kimberly, has also essentially done the same thing I’m doing.  I’m sure there are more of you out there doing the same.

I was going to make a long statement about the state of Second Life, whats good and what’s bad, but I can’t bring myself up to writing up what I am sure others have already said.

I have had a grand time in Second Life.  I’ve been fortunate enough to meet a lot of avies and become quite close to a lot of them.  I miss them and I will remember them.  I’ve found a lot of joy and fun in playing around, but at the same time I’ve had a lot of disappointments.  Festivus has past, so we I pass on the airing of the grievances.

You may see me on now and then, mostly to just do some housecleaning or such.  I’m planning on ceasing forwarding my IM’s to my email account here in the near future.  Most of them are from vendors hawking wares that I won’t be buying.  If you need to get a hold of me, send me an email.  I also plan to freeze comments soon, as to lock out the spammers.

It might be the end, but it probably won’t.  See you on the other side.

-Veyron