Musings from the Peanut Gallery

Today we got the imSimReal website uploaded so it is now live.
There are a few things left to update, including adding a link to it from the John Ahrens, LLC homepage. Most of these things will take place over the next day or two. Note the blog at imSimReal as well.

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Since Second life seems to have lost it’s luster, I’ve not heard much of 3-D virtual worlds. Then today I saw mention of three different 3-D virtual worlds. Robert Scoble had this post on Vivaty. Michael Arrington had this post on an agreement between IBM and Second Life. This is the first I’d heard about [...]

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Got Nikki’s Lensgames Nature photo album live now. Check it out.Technorati Tags:Photography, Lensgames

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Gapingvoid pointed out this blog post on Twitter. In it, Clay Shirky discusses the social sea change that we are in the midst of, and how it will affect us.
He points out that some sociologists suggest that the critical technology of the industrial revolution was gin.
The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, [...]

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At long last, the LensGames website is operational. We have animal pictures posted at this time, but none other.Technorati Tags:Photography, Lensgames

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I’ve been using Twitter recently. I’m john146 if you want to follow me.

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I did a Google search for “independent developers” and hit this set of suggestions for independent developers (just keep moving forward through the topics). Nick regularly blogs about many things, much of it has to do with Newsgator, but he has other interesting comments and tips for developers as well.

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I’ve been playing around with Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and using Google Web Toolkit Solutions by David Geary as a source. Using Netbeans 6 on the Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), on dual proc @.0 Ghz PPC PowerMac Pro, and using Glassfish V2 as the server, I get an RPC failure when I attempt to [...]

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I’m using Cutline 3-Column Split 1.1 by Chris Pearson as my theme at this blog. For some reason, the comments are messed up on Firefox, either Mac or Windows. I haven’t checked Linux.
How the comments look in I.E.:

How the comments look in Firefox:

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Since writing this entry the other day, I got a response from NetJeff, suggesting I use bcspamblock. So I downloaded it and installed it on this blog, not the others, yet. I’ll see how it works.

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