Yesterday, Jeska Linden let me in on a tidbit: googling for the word "second" (without quotation marks, just enter that in the search field) places Second Life #1. And the word "life"? #4, just under Life Magazine, USATODAY.com, and Lifetime TV. We're ahead of quite a few "real life" matches. Zero Linden later shared a Google Trends link which shows this to be true too!
Almost as good as surfing the Net looking for pictures of women eating watermelon, I say.
Nice link from the forums, if you're a current Resident (or as I like to say, Resi for short): Wireframe in SL, where Sinatra Cartier leads the charge on some really beautiful pieces. I got his blessing to share this here. Again, making use of my newfound Flickr Pro account. 
In case you haven't heard the incredibly good news, Brent and Morpheus Linden sounded the gong on our new public Known Issues page, replacing the manual old listing with something dynamic. It's based directly on our internal database, so you're really getting a deeper look into what we're aware of and going to fix. You know what else I wanna see there? Here's a few things:
- Sorting—the obvious, like sorting by priority, and by category.
- Searchability. A MUST in these info-overloaded times. (How many times do I see answers on the forums that aren't fetched because it's dang hard, and laggy, to search? A lot.)
- More obvious expansion symbols for the Reproductions. They seem too subtle for me.
- Killer: being able to be notified when one of these buggers is fixed! Wouldn't you love that, auto-notification?
Alright, so I'm really excited about it. Afterwards, I had a chat with Brent. He's just so neat and precise. He spent a lot of time preparing the explanation of what to look for, which should really be linked from the page itself. I admire him for paying such fine attention to detail. And I'm inspired—that's a large part of coming to work every day, because I work with so many inspiring people. And this means a lot of learning.
One of the funnest things I do: take new Lindens for inworld tours. 'Cause, you know, inworld is my focus.
The Purple One, Mera Pixel, has been posting some really gorgeous widescreen galleries documenting the setup of Second Life's Third Birthday. Her latest, "3rd Birthday Eve", is an unadulterated visual treat. I'm so happy she's documenting this, because I've fallen behind in the way of taking my photos and doing the rounds. I'm determined to commit later this week to really digging in where it counts. I take great pleasure in meeting avatar-to-avatar, and being right on the vital pulse.
I'm going to hop inworld a little later and check for lights at night: the new hardware lighting adds a lot of lovely glow come midnight. Not as much as I've wanted to see, yet—as tasteful accents, they really bring out the dynamics in otherwise-flat surfaces.
Ah, just too much good: see the whole "third birthday" tagged gallery on Snapzilla!
