It doesn't feel like a doctoral thesis, more like a jaunt through the neon jungles of someland — it's been over 3 years and 100,000+ snapshots taken in Second Life; about 1/10 of those uploaded online, most of those sent as postcards.

I'm creating a Snapshot tips page on the public Wiki. It is, aptly put, the summation of what I've come to learn and love over the years. It came to be due to popular Resident request, for I get asked many questions about how I did X, Y, and Z — and not only that, because Lindens are prettifying up our San Francisco offices with avatar art come WindLight, and I've gotten my fair share of inquiries from Ashlei and other dear coworkers.

So, thus unfurls the scroll… what I know is for you to know. I am a firm-yet-flexible believer that knowledge is useless unless it's applied, and when shared, it's even more useful. Tofflerian philosophy dictates that knowledge is promiscuous, but instead of me uttering blasphemies on this here blog, why not take a gander that the Snapshot tips for yourself and let me know what you'd like to see? It's a work-in-progress and I putter away at it with much affection during stretches in my workday that aren't occupied with more pressing tasks.

And, in case you were wondering (of course you were), this long, continuous webpage screenshot was handily captured by the Save As Image Firefox Add-on. (After being scrooed over by sluggishly-moving web apps which often had laggard queues and frequent timeouts, and finding it too time-wasting to stitch together single screens manually, I wanted a fastlane!)

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