@Storm: I like "chorus".

@Ananda: I think there's too much self-denigration and lack of responsibility in the world.

@Glen: That's playful, but again, I can't explain away the feces-flinging. :\

@Alexandra: Thanks! I enjoy communicating; we're trying to be more consistent across the board, I happen to be very hyperactive — in the near future, we're shifting more of these communications to an Inworld Experience Team… so ComWhatever's role is changing.

I *greatly* enjoy the weeks when you're on blog duty because problem notices actually GET POSTED. As opposed to other weeks, when we get a blue notice in-world "…check the blog for details…" and the blog doesn't GET updated for at least an hour - and occasionally not until the next day.

The title __ Monkey is generally a self-applied deliberate denigration of your own position. I use it that way all the time, both to explain to people that my job is not a professional rank and to dodge the responsibility that professionals assume. I'm "just" a CAD Monkey - i.e. I'm not a licensed architect. Ignore the denigrating connotations of being in a lower-educated, lower-white-collar job and the term "Monkey" ceases to have meaning. Calling it "Leader" or "Lord" wouldn't work either because then people would be REALLY pissed at Grid Monkeys demonstrating their incompetence or lack of overall responsibility.

After I log in, the bandwidth drops to zero, the packet loss goes up the roof and then both drop to zero. I can not move, only turn around on the spot. When I manage to TP to another location, the same often happens there. Funny enough though, it doesn't happen when I connect to a server that is not located in California.

SL runs on an AMD 3200+ machine with 1 gig of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 6600LE video card onboard (updated the drivers). The download speed of my connection is 5438 kbps, my upload speed 777 kbps (I just tested it at http://www.speedtest.nl).

Seems like I just can’t seem to connect to the old servers. I live in the Netherlands and my ISP is called 'xs4all' - it seems they are the only ISP with this problem. I did mail them about it, and mailed the LL support people, but I have not heard anything.

So I was thinking, maybe you could ask around over there? Thanks in advance.

@Lightwave: I hate inventory loss. I dream of a future with easier backups, where we can look back and gawk at how primitive things once were. But to get there, we have to invent the future

@vint: I have no idea what mybloglog is or what it's good for… yet. Compel me please!

@Day: Oh thanks a lot, part of the trick is sharing enough to keep updated, but not so much that it becomes an infoglut sea of text. Glad you dig the tunes too.

@Daedalus: Yeah for me, it kinda goes with, well, insulting Steve Ballmer by calling him a "monkey boy". Certain animals have connotation, even "ComHorse" would be better, proven thoroughbred… or something. You have a point!

@Zack: Haha that sounds like something outta Dr. Who, titles like that.

@Apollo: Oh I really, really like "guru".

@Erbo: Haha, "I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR NEW GRIDLORDS!"

@DarkLight: Related, there's a story why some of us folks on Community Team are "Community Developers", not "Managers" — I think it has to do with how LL is special and not hierarchical in a way which would need "managers". At the same time, I think of all those motivational courses, and how they talk about being a leader more than a manager in times of crisis, so it seemed appropriate.