Update

Object-Name: Blogging Terminal v1.0
Region: Tethys (258560, 254208)
Local-Position: (90, 147, 74)

Well Folks, I realize that i have been bouncign around a lot over the past few months, but I have finally settled on a piece od land in Tethys overlooking the River. I have since placed my free blogging package out on my front porch for anyone who is inte

Location is Tethys 91,149

My goal is to get my secondserver accoutn back up shortly and make sure that the blogging package is still loaded into it.

The price is still $0L and as always, if you have any comments, concerns, or suggestions, just let me know :)

--BL

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Linden Collector Card Collection

Object-Name: Blogging Terminal v1.0
Region: Cottonwood (258048, 253440)
Local-Position: (143, 135, 57)

My Linden Collector Card Holdings as of 3/28
(All are on display (except for duplicates) on my fireplace in Cottonwood, 141,136)

Brent *
Callum
Catherine
Char **
Chris
Dan
David
Deana
Doug
Jack
Jed
Jeff *
Jeska
Jill *
Kelly *
Michael
Mick *
Nicole *
Nova *
Pathfinder *
Rheya
Richard
Ryan
Sabin *
Uncle
Vektor

The sad thing is that I'm not fully sure how I am going to be able to fit all of the cards on once I collect them all. I might have to migrate to my back wall or something...

But that's a worry for another day :)

--BL

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Psyched

Object-Name: SecondBlog v1.1M
Region: Waterhead (262656, 257536)
Local-Position: (60, 108, 25)

Well, the SecondBlog Blogging terminal has been out for about 3 days now and has become the 3rd most popular item currently selling at secondserver.net. I am going to add it to SLExchange and look into SL Boutique later tonight. I am excited, because it's

I've hit an interesting dillema, because with the Gigas vendors I am currently using, the purchasing and delivery mechanism seems to be triggered by the pay function. However, since this is listed as free, the pay funtion will not take a value of 0. The r

Well, I'm going to go. I'm standing at the current WA in Waterhead, testing out a new blogging device, which is an attachment for mobile blogging. I am really excited about this one, because it will allow for more dynamic accounts, as residents can now re

So yea, I'm pretty psyched about this whole thing. I'm such a dork... :P

--BL

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Other services besides Blogger.com that Offer Post-By-Email

I've looked into other services a little more and came up with the following results:

Livejournal.com
They do have a post-by-Email option, but it appears to only be available for those with premium accounts
http://www.livejournal.com/manage/emailpost.bml

Xanga.com
Much like LiveJournal, they offer post-by-Email only for those with premium accounts.
http://www.xanga.com/About/Premium/#email

MSN Spaces
This seemed a bit dicey. I searched in their helpfile but didn't find anything. However, they allow you to post via mobile phones that have email access, so I think there is probably a way to fudge this to get it to work.

From the MSN site:

Set up a mobile device to publish blog entries

You can publish blog entries when you are away from your computer by using a mobile device. If your mobile device enables you to send e-mail messages, you can set it up to publish blog entries.

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On your MSN Spaces page on your computer:

1. Click the Settings tab. (If you don't see the Settings tab in the upper right of your space, click the Home tab first.)
2. Click Mobile Settings.
3. Follow the instructions on the screen.

Linden Railroad

Object-Name: Blogging Terminal v1.0
Region: Obscure (256768, 260864)
Local-Position: (25, 154, 80)

Well, I'm here in Obscure, next to what appears to be a linden-made box car. A few days back, another object was discovered, an object simply named train, along with 4 spheres named rail 1 and rail 2. It looks like they are coming up with a full train tha

Before someone points it out, I do have to say that the GSLR is pretty dang cool itself. I rode that for a while the other day. Besdies the fact that it spans half a dozen sims, the GSLR is particularly interesting because it is all over privately owned l

One last thought: When I clicked on the boxcar, I noticed that it has (at present) a sit/ ride script in it. Looks like we might be able to ride the rails after all...

--BL

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SL as a Learning Tool?

Object-Name: Blogging Terminal v1.0
Region: Meins (259584, 255488)
Local-Position: (155, 49, 84)

Ugh, it's 5 in the morning and I'm up on SL. That's a sign of a problem, isn't it? I mean, geeesh. Part of it is that my sleep schedule has been so out of whack lately. Oh well, at least it's time I am putting to some use.

I've started studying my French again, in hopes of pulling off a decent grade this semster. I've found that surprisingly (or not), Second Life has proven to be helpful in tuning my conversational skills. Just the other day, I had a nice conversation with

I've also started a new blog where the main goal is for me to jot down a few ideas in french every day to, again, keep myself working through the new material. My goal is simply a paragraph a day, ideally utilizing new techniques and grammar structures. I

Well, I should probably try to do something productive. I have an idea in mind for a much more substantial blog post, but I think I am going to wait until tommorow to do it, as I just don't have the ambition at present to type it all out.

--BL

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Now Open: Livingston Furniture (Locations)

Updated 06/01/05:

Upon a periodic reevaluation, it has been decided to consolidate all of the Livingston Furniture Satelite Stores into one Main Store, located in Hotei.

You can find our brand new shop by searching for "Livignston Furniture" in the FIND window.

In addition, all of my designs are available on the secondserver.net website.
Link

Thank you for your patronage,

Livingston Furniture

In my mailbox: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

Hmmm, looks like they had a hiccup when it came to that one post earlier
that never went through when sent from my private e-mail address.

As a result, hold onto any notecards that you post to your blog until you
are sure that it went through.

--BL

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mail Delivery System"
To:
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 7:25 PM
Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

> This is the Postfix program at host blogger.com.
>
> I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be
> be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.
>
> For further assistance, please send mail to
>
> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
> delete your own text from the attached returned message.
>
> The Postfix program
>
> (expanded from
> ): Command died with status 1: "IFS='
> '&&exec /home/bloggermail/processmail2||exit 75 #bloggermail"
>

Blogging from In-World

Object-Name: Blogging Terminal v1.0
Region: Meins (259584, 255488)
Local-Position: (155, 49, 84)

#begin

Testing out a few features I noticed in the blogger help file.

Sorry about the vast amount of "test" posts in this blog so far, but as soon as I get all of these issues ironed out, I'll get back to posting legitimate entries :p

--BL

Testing e-mail to blog system using an offworld account (second try)

This is just a test. That is all.

 

--BL

Linden Cards, Bears, 'ellos, Oh My!

Object-Name: Blogging Terminal v1.0
Region: Meins (259584, 255488)
Local-Position: (155, 49, 84)

So, this is the first real post using this Blogging Termnial. The sad thing is that I was all ready to head to bed about 3 hours ago when I put the pieces togeather and set up this system. Looks like another night of being up until 6 am. Bleh.

So I know have four of these Linden Collector Bears: Pathfinder, Nicole, Blue, and Jill. These are pretty spiffy, although unfortunitly they are eating up between 20 and 30 prims a piece, so they might have to find another home, perhaps in my winter place

Lastly, I've started putting out vendors and shops across the grid, using the Gigas/secondserver vendor system. So far, I have vendors in:

Farwell (94,155)
Kasba (132, 166)
Fudo (203, 170)
Scafell (98, 163)
Ontario (82,42)*
Seefeld (185, 200)* - One of the carts

*These two are estimated coordinates, as I didn't set a landmark.

If anyone is renting out vendor spaces or small shop spaces, fire off an IM to me. Chances are that I'll be interested.

Ok, time for sleep.

--BL

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Blogging Terminal Readme

Object-Name: Blogging Terminal v1.0
Region: Meins (259584, 255488)
Local-Position: (155, 49, 84)

Blogging Terminal v 1.0
Based off of the Notecard2TechSupport script by Strife Onizuka
Released under GPL
Copyleft 2005

-=Table of Contents=-
- Introduction
- Setup Instructions
- Blogging
- Disclaimers
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-=Introduction=-
So, you want to blog from SL? Good! Here's what you'll need in
order to use this product.
- A blogger.com account (Don't worry, they're free)
- This Blogging Terminal
- A little patience

Once you got those, we're good to go!
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-=Instructions=-

Setting up the Terminal
1. First off, make sure that you have a blogger.com account set up, along with an actual blog setup. This is all explained at the blogger.com website and throughtheir extensive help section.

2. In order to blog from Second Life, you will need to setup an e-mail address at blogger.com to send your blogs to. You can do this through the settings menu for your individual blog. Detailed explanation of this can be found at:

http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=135&topic=38

Make sure to write down what the e-mail address is that you set up with blogger.com.

3. Back in Second Life, open the Edit menu for the Blogging Terminal. In the content menu, you will see this notecard, as well as one script. Open the Script.

4. Around line 11, you will see the following line of code:
string emailaddress="XXXX@blogger.com";

Replace the XXXX@blogger.com with the e-mail address you chose in step 2.
If your e-mail address was sldude.asparagus@blogger.com, the line of code should read:
string emailaddress="sldude.asparagus@blogger.com";

5. Save the script and make sure that the "Running" checkbox is still checked. Close the edit and script windows.

Your terminal is now set up.

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-=Blogging=-

To post your blogs online, you will be composing them in a notecard. The Title of the Notecard will become the subject of the post, and the text contained within the notecard will become the main body of text.

When you have finished composing your notecard, simply save it, drag it from your invintory and drop it on the screen of the terminal. If everything goes as planned, your blog will be updated within a few minutes.

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-=Disclaimers=-

I will not accept any liability if for some reason this product results in your blog changing in some manner, your dog catching on fire, or Pathfinder Linden being zapped clear to the kid grid.

Again, this is based off of the script of Strife Onizuka, available in the scripting library. The monitor model is my own model. This entire project has been released as open source, so feel free to change it, adapt it, whatever. All I ask is that you a)

Have fun

--Brian Livingston

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Introductory Test

Object-Name: Blogging Terminal
Region: Meins (259584, 255488)
Local-Position: (155, 49, 84)

Hello,

Brian Livingston here, testing out my Blogging Terminal. Will it work? Who knows!

Here goes nothing

--BL

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