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New Babbler Distro Point

Max Case — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:00:20 +0000

Main Babbler distro point has been moved, still on Phreak Isle, but now in the middle. Also, Phreak Isle was given a redesign, and it's looking good, so feel free to drop by to check it out.

SLCC

Max Case — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:40:29 +0000

Ola! Long time no update, I know. Busy busy. Just a quick note saying I’m off to SLCC, and feel free to come up and say hi if you see me (I won’t have on the cowboy hat). Love to chat with people who actually use Sim-Neighbours or Babbler.

onair

Max Case — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:00:14 +0000

Phreak Isle 102,150,21

It's that time of the week - max case randomonium hour - for the next two hours i'll be playing tunes and entertaining over on phreak isle. Special guest in studio - we'll have live readings by Emily Post! 7pm SLT.

Chance of showers

Max Case — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:50:05 +0000

Pi 57,207,27

No, I'm not depressed. The cloud over my head is my PAWS - Personal AccuWeather System. It's a personal weather widget for SL - feed it a RL location, and it gives you the weather for that area, and a little representation of that weather follows you around. Of course, you can override the default behaviour, and display any weather you want to follow you. Works great with an Eeyore av :).
The PAWS is Wishfarmer creation, I've been part of the team working on it for AccuWeather.com this last while.
If you want to grab one, just visit the coords at the top of this post, and touch the Obelisk you see behind me in the picture. If you vie the pic full size, you'll nice the HUD in it's minimized

good idea

Max Case — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:56:49 +0000

I really like that facebook offers a special feed for developers. It seems nuts and bolts so far, and that’s Good Thing™. It’s a quick heads up for developers to check if there’ any problems with fb platform itself. hint hint LL.

thanks

Max Case — Wed, 30 May 2007 00:14:51 +0000

just wanted to take a minute from my crazy sex,drugs n’ lsl lifestyle to extend a thank you.

First to the yahoo! pipes team for a nifty service, and for being so accessible and open when i write them about problems (props to daniel :) ).

I’d also like to extend a thank you to people who answered my call in the Babbler group the other night for people to help test out the latest version. You know who you are.

And, last but not least, i’d like to thank all the users who take the time to give me feedback, good and bad :)

-max

clogged pipes

Max Case — Mon, 28 May 2007 22:02:51 +0000

well, seems pipes are clogged, so babbler working is spotty, at best. Naturally, this would happen during the long weekend, so who knows. I did my little canary-in-the-mineshaft (or alligator in the pipes? no,that doesn’t hold) thing and wrote to yahoo to ask if it’s just me, or pipes in general. So fingers crossed peoples!

Please don’t post comments telling me it’s broken. Although, reports of brokeness are always welcome to my SL IM, or to max.case@gmail.com. I’ll find the time eventually (ed. shurely you jest! time? ilke what, 15mins?) to put a contact form up here.
[update: 11:40AM PST Got a note that the pipes issues are fixed, so babbler works again]

babbler back

Max Case — Tue, 22 May 2007 13:34:40 +0000

Ok. Babbler’s back on-line. be nice to it. Using curl now, so hopefully that will help deal with some problems where pipes’ hangs, which would lead all my babbler processes to back up, which caused the recent kabooms. Let me know if you have any weirdness or problems. Error reports do help.

In a cruel twist of fate (ok, maybe not) it turns out old copies of babbler(v2) were working fine throughout the outage, since I never disabled them. Just sort of figured I would let it tail off. So save those old versions! Never know when they can come in handy.

re: downtime

Max Case — Sun, 20 May 2007 23:32:57 +0000

Sorry about all the downtime this weekend. Just to tell those who are curious whats happening (or i suspect is happening) in the last few days. It seems that pipes is still having some speed issues, which causes the bridge to hang, which piles up, which cause the boom, in non-tech speak. Or course, this is just what I think is happening, Working on doing things a different way, which will hopefully allow it to work a bit, But in the meantime, its down. Sorry.

pipes down

Max Case — Wed, 16 May 2007 12:58:16 +0000

Y! pipes seems down at the moment, therefore babbler is down. should be back soon.
*** UPDATE: 10:34am PST: babbler is still down, since it relies on yahoo pipes, which are down at the moment***

UPDATE: 12:32om PSTNow back up
UPDATE 7:34pm Sorta back up. Coverage may be spotty. I won’t get into it, its not that interesting, but problems should be temporary.

However, its given me an excuse to use the blink tag.