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Notes – Vex :: Tech
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Vex Streeter's Ruminations on Virtual Worlds. Learning Blender (in my copious spare time). March 25, 2015. March 25, 2015. Okay I’ve messed around with Blender on and off for, well, years. Here is yet another attempt to collect resources and notes. If anyone other than I ever reads this, I’ll apologize in advance: this post is likely to always Read More …. By night, Vex Streeter is an SL explorer, scripter, and tinkerer. He co-authored Scripting Your World: the Official Guide to Second Life Scripting.
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Converting from Vonage to Google Voice (VoIP) – Vex :: Tech
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Vex Streeter's Ruminations on Virtual Worlds. Converting from Vonage to Google Voice (VoIP). January 29, 2015. So, I was looking at my credit card bill a few months ago and it hit me My monthly telephone bill via Vonage has grown to $37.44! I wasn’t really certain how that aligned with, say, phone from Verizon FiOS (which we have for internet) or other options, but I thought I’d look around for alternatives. And wait another 24 hours. I flushed the subscribers list of bots. By night, Vex Streeter is an S...
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Gaming – Vex :: Tech
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Vex Streeter's Ruminations on Virtual Worlds. August 7, 2015. I don’t usually personally promote books but when I do, I’m the star! Well, okay, not really the star, but I did get interviewed for Dungeon Hacks, by David L Craddock. I’ve just received a pre-press copy and will be reading Read More …. By night, Vex Streeter is an SL explorer, scripter, and tinkerer. He co-authored Scripting Your World: the Official Guide to Second Life Scripting. By day, he's R&D computer scientist for Internet Pioneer BBN.
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Dungeon Hacks – Vex :: Tech
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Vex Streeter's Ruminations on Virtual Worlds. August 7, 2015. I don’t usually personally promote books but when I do, I’m the star! Well, okay, not really the star, but I did. Get interviewed for Dungeon Hacks. By David L Craddock. I’ve just received a pre-press copy and will be reading it over the next few weeks, but it is neat to see some of the events I recall from years past in print! PS Other neat background information is Wagner James Au’s. Article for Salon: The best game ever (2000).
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Vex :: Tech – Page 2 – Vex Streeter's Ruminations on Virtual Worlds
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Vex Streeter's Ruminations on Virtual Worlds. Wherein I pine for continuous virtual worlds. July 23, 2014. I always liked the concept of virtual worlds as connected space: e.g. The Street in Snow Crash, The River in Otherland, even required travel time in many games and novels about games. Second Life used to feel much more connected Read More …. Coming Soon: Skill Games! July 9, 2014. When I first saw the headline Coming Soon: Skill Gaming in Second Life! May 23, 2014. July 23, 2014. May 5, 2014. Yes, I...
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Snapshots – Vex :: Tech
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Vex Streeter's Ruminations on Virtual Worlds. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You must be logged in. To post a comment. By night, Vex Streeter is an SL explorer, scripter, and tinkerer. He co-authored Scripting Your World: the Official Guide to Second Life Scripting. And mentors for the University of Washington's certificate program in Virtual Worlds. By day, he's R&D computer scientist for Internet Pioneer BBN. Catch Adaptive by Catch Themes.
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Our first Megawatt-hour – Vex :: Tech
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Vex Streeter's Ruminations on Virtual Worlds. May 7, 2015. May 7, 2015. So, in September 2014, we signed a contract to install a photovoltaic solar panel array on our roof. It took quite a while to get things complete, but we threw the switch the first week of March 2015 and by 1 May 2015, we’d generated 1 Megawatt-hour of electricity! The trip has been full of frustrations and surprises, so I thought I’d document it a bit here. I can just hear your confusion: Why on Vex: Tech? Our system, by the numbers:.
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New User Experience – Vex :: Tech
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Vex Streeter's Ruminations on Virtual Worlds. May 23, 2014. July 23, 2014. I went through creating a new avatar the other day. And here’s what I found. The account creation dialogs on the website are okay, but:. They still don’t make it clear that you cannot change your account name and don’t offer you the option to customize your display name at registration time. Action: ask for your preferred DISPLAY name, then munge it to create an acceptable account name as a second step. Why only three categories?
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Wherein I pine for continuous virtual worlds – Vex :: Tech
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Vex Streeter's Ruminations on Virtual Worlds. Wherein I pine for continuous virtual worlds. July 23, 2014. I always liked the concept of virtual worlds as connected space: e.g. The Street in Snow Crash. The River in Otherland. Even required travel time in many games and novels about games. And window dressing, not really a meaningful part of the experience and rendering the world functionally just a huge pile of disconnected regions. Au reports in New World Notes. And what would the side effects be?
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