Torley Lives

Now is the time, one of many, that I express appreciation for all the heartwarming correspondence I've received lately. Across a spectrum of media, from IMs to notecards to gift objects to emails, I've gotten so much amazing feedback about a variety of things I've involved in. Often, it's my Video Tutorials, as I'm synonymous with being sort of a Russell Brown of Second Life, but also who I am as a person — my personality carries into the Grid, where I believe I've been able to express myself more than before I ever discovered it, and it sounds like a lot of you can relate.

I'm at a bittersweet stage right now, sweet because of the incoming communication I get, some of it so thoughtful and profound, and bitter because I can't reply to it all. I have this recurring joke about wanting a clone, or better yet, a whole army! Finding time to "play" nowadays is tough. For example, I've gotten personal invitations to so many inworld events, clothes for my avatar and watermelon-colored avies, and an outright array of kewl gadgets to try. I love the mythology that I'm omnipresent, but alas, I can't be everywhere at once.

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First, an apology: if you made a comment on Torley Lives in the last 16 hours, I'm sorry. It's gone. I had to rollback my blog's database because of a chain of events: yesterday, I discovered I was having this problem posting to my blog. Needless to say, alas that fix didn't work, and long story short, wrestling my way through a number of things, I scrooed up and corrupted my database. Let this be a lesson to me: take a break when "coming home" from work!

So, I decided to upgrade to WordPress 2.2 in the process, and then, ran into another hitch — my current and fave theme, Tiga, was borked and sidebar widgets weren't working. Thankfully, I googled my way outta this jam, and found an answer. After a deep breath, I applied the fix, and it worked.

I'm back here now, and if you're reading this, so are you!

Bridie Linden sent this my way… sweeeeet. How sporty!

I hope you heard that Second Life First Look WindLight is out! Yes, that means the beauty you've seen in my previous blog posts is hopefully something you can enjoy for yourself.

Pardon the post's length; I wanted to be briefer, but you know how it is with a cornucopia of questions we love to answer! So, I put in pictures so your eyes don't get too sore… pix of PRETTY NEW SKIES hehe.

I have to give massive thanxies to the WindLight project team I'm on. Lovely, passionate people to work with. I'm product managing WindLight (in case you haven't guessed already), so this means I'm responsible for connecting bugs + new feature suggestions that come up on our Issue Tracker. With today's gathered feedback, I'll take a first go at it tomorrow, and continue regularly from there.

Feedback so far has been largely positive, with a number of well-meaning concerns we anticipated beforehand, such as "Where did the moon go?" and "Why can't I fly through clouds anymore?"… both and more of which shall be answered in further detail in times to come. I also know of some sucky crash bugs like VWR-896, watch for our progress on 'em soon.

Trivia: the First Look WindLight viewer's splash screen was photographed by me, on the beautiful realm of Intemptesta Nox, which means "dead of night". Gracious thankyous of course go to Baron Grayson and Sue Stonebender for such a classy and apt atmosphere to inspire my willful ways. So if you're looking for a nice place to splash your sunshine, do visit!

To reiterate, if you haven't tried WindLight yet, what's stopping you? Download it and let me know what you think + feel! Come, join us for the adventure!