Baba Sucks

• listening to Nevermind #
• Jesse got scobleized. http://tinyurl.com/2hmo47 #

• testing twitter tools wordpress plugin by Alex King http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress #
• @bushing: I’d watch. #
• Twitter tools works! http://babasucks.com/ #

• Remembering Jesse. http://tinyurl.com/2crh3f #

The Second Life 4th Birthday event is coming up soon. The event is schedualed for June 23rd-June 30th. Check out the SL4B Portal on the Second Life wiki for more information on the planning of this event.

I’ve volunteered to take up the open source display at the event. The open source display will show how open source has influenced Second Life and how Second Life has influenced and inspired open source projects. So far the display will include libsecondlife, OpenSL [2], OpenSim, and other information about Linden Lab’s use of open source software(eg. Mono, Mozilla Gecko, Squid, Linux, MySQL)

Anyone interested in helping out with the open source display is encouraged to contact me at baba@libsecondlife.org or IM Baba Yamamoto in Second Life.

If you want to help out with other aspects of the SL4B Event contact SignpostMarv Martin in Second Life.

Trying out Trac for the first time this week on some new projects.

The trac website says,

Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management. Our mission is to help developers write great software while staying out of the way. Trac should impose as little as possible on a team’s established development process and policies.

All that is very true. I commend the Trac team on their accomplishment. If only it were not coded in Python. EUGH whitespace syntax.

It’s all right. As long as I pretend it’s not there and it always works as expected it will never matter.

If all goes well with Trac maybe libsecondlife and Open Metaverse can start using it soon too. It looks to be more put together than our current mash.

Not much activity here recently.  I’ve been posting quite a bit to my new tumblelog at meta.babasucks.com

No heavy thoughts, just web spew and shinies.

John Edward squares off against John Edwards in the 2008 presidential race which is gathering steam in the virtual world of Second Life.

Edward is running a compelling campaign. Voters are asked the question, “Who would you rather vote for? Some political expert or a man who can read minds?!”

Vote John Edward in ‘08 — HE CAN READ MINDS!

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That’s right. The libsecondlife website is now pretty. We’ve traded in the old CMS front page for a clean wiki. It took a bit of hacking on MediaWiki to get it to play nice with us, but in the end it’s a better platform for our needs. Less frontage and more substance.

Some nice functionality with the new layout is the ability to scale down to profile tab size as well as making the site more open to the rest of the community. Hopefully it will herald the end to outdated links because somebody(me) was too lazy or forgetful to update the static pages.

Please send any issues you my have with the new layout to me at baba@libsecondlife.org.