My more personal things will continue to be posted here, and work-related stuff incl. serious bits 'n' bobs will appear on the Official Linden Blog. I really can't wait until more of my coworkers speak, I know they may not be heard a lot, but they have voices too, and I'm looking forward to hearing their expressions so Resis know they exist, and what they're doing.
Also, I've been taking less snapshots—some have noticed my Snapzilla stream flowed to a trickle. This is really 'cuz: 1) the new Snapshot Preview is unfriendly towards rapidly piccie-taking, and 2) I haven't been inworld much as Torley Linden. I'm usually on a tester alt, because I need to hash out a lot of these Resident Experience problems. It's like a massage. But knowing what I know, this is a phase, and things will adapt once again. My mind is quite non-linear so I'm pulling up memories from many phases of my life; maybe this is why I am apt at not repeating history. But it took lumps to get here, and if you're wondering why I don't do some things, it's likely because I've already done them and got bored. Always hungry for new experiences.
Speaking of snapshots, I (must really)/(really must) recommend Gadwin PrintScreen if you want to do screen captures. I often need to snag a window here or an avatar there for putting into Linden Lab's project management database. PrintScreen is FREE, easy to use, and gosh, Lifehacker covered it too. They're so good. I've also been studying how to do better video bug reports, reading about codecs and all that. In the future when the bandwidth for videos becomes almost as trivial as that for still pictures, I would suggest that Second Life gets a fixed built-in video recorder (currently brokez0rs) and with it, you could make video bug reports with no sweat. Picture, meet thousand words. In the meantime, I am getting stuff hosted on blip.tv, because they don't recompress my videos like YouTube does (it kills quality).
This dovetails into machinima: I think there should be more knowledge freely available about how to encode videos, because that's part of the entire presentation. I've seen some otherwise great vids that were marred by crappy, artifacted encoding. For my QuickTime stuffs, I was using Sorenson 3 but am knowing more about H.264, which is the same format that Apple Movie Trailers uses.
We will have reached an apex when we have a Second Life equivalent of Hexstatic or Chris Cunningham—powerful with hypnotic, memorable visuals, and masterful synchronization. If you've not seen Coldcut & Hexstatic's "Natural Rhythm", then you must! The sync isn't as tight as it could be because of the degradation as a result of YouTube's additional encoding, but you get the idea.
I know, I need more pictures in my entries. Here's to hoping a crazy dream comes to me and spurs me onward.
Thanx for reading. 