More about the new Avies

Linden Robot No5 Glubsch Invader
This avie has two bodies, so look in the folder after
you add this one to your own inventory.

It's official! The avatars I highlighted have been announced by The Lab on their own blog (Web) and they have pictures of all the new options. The post is a worthwhile read beyond the avies as it has new information about the group chat lag problem and other issues, plus important news.

A Different Incongruent Truth

The lack of blog posts lately is one part laziness, one part being busy, and more than a few parts being disgusted with Second Life™. Take a look at the picture below.

When I started the viewer this morning a look at the status info at the top right showed all was good. The news links bottom left concurred. Happily clicking the Connect button (did they copyright 'Connect'?) I was rewarded with an offline for database maintenance message. Figuring the viewer information might be wrong I checked sources directly.

• The official blog showed nothing different from the news links in the viewer.
• There was nothing amiss on the Grid Status page.
• Second Life™'s main Web page showed nothing out of the ordinary.
• Friends Online switched to the super secret status page

Go figure.

Now the amusing part ...


As I was initially publishing this post I rechecked everything and found that a status alert had been added, but somehow some friends managed to log in.

Right. Maybe I had been tried to log in before the wave crested. Probably these folks were in-world before log-ins where closed. But information dissemination from the powers on hand can be much better organized.

Plaignante fini.