It's cold here in Ohio

Some of you who "know" me also know that I live in Ohio. That's more by accident than design because when I left the UK and followed the old advice, "Go West, Young Man," I didn't go west enough. Ideally I would be somewhere in SoCal, between Orange County and San Diego, but instead I am buried in snow somewhere outside Cleveland. C'est la vie, as those continental chappies say.

You might think that lots of snow would keep me in the house with extra time to spend basking in the virtual sunshine (four times a day) of Second Life, but that hasn't happened. Instead, I've been trying out this thing called "Real Life" and spending time in other sims. Using a rather quaint form of TP called "an airplane," I've been able to explore some new areas such as "San Francisco" and "Houston," along with another sim called "Orlando," which even has theme parks! Whoa!

Fortunately I think I have three weeks without travel so I may be able to pull together some copy for SLentrepreneur Magazine, The Metaverse Tribune, and even The Alphaville Herald. Who knows? I certainly need the money as my tier fees are due and my PayPal account is low.

So those of you who occasionally stop by here to see if I am not dead should check back in a week to see if I have had some flashes of inspiration. I may even get back to sending out a few tweets.

MBC News: 2-4-2010

Check out the latest MBC News for February 4th, 2010.

This week, the team talks about Linden Lab’s acquisition of the social networking site Avatars United as well as getting ready for the last season of Lost and more on this weeks news. Dousa wears green, Siggy wears [hoorenbeek], Lisa wears well, and Mal wears us all out!

New Article in the Alphaville Herald

Take a look at my "fairly unbalanced" article on Avatars United, the latest social networked aimed at avatars.

Avatars United: A Social Network Too Far?

There's some discussion on the new site on MBC News.

MBC News: 1-27-10 (without Siggs)

Having been forced to spend a week in Florida on business (yeah, dirty job but someone has to do it) the latest MBC News doesn't include me, but it's still worth watching ;)



Crap Mariner talks about his latest project, Tunes In SL.

MBC News: 1-14-10

Phew! Real life is moving apace and I even had to miss a week on the news because I was in Las Vegas at the annual Consumer Electronics Show - CES 2010. There's a brief report on the show.

MBC News 1-14-2010 from Metaverse TV on Vimeo.

The next edition of the news is in the can but I'm due to take another week off for a trip to Orlando. No, I'm not on vacation - I'm doing some training and meeting with our international distributors to work on the 2011 (yes, that's next year) product plans. I mention this by way of an explication as to why my second life is so restricted - the first keeps interfering with it!

Link to the Leominster Galleries

The official link to the Leominster Galleries is here:

http://snipr.com/u5gcy

Or use the SLurl: secondlife://Root Squared/236/243/351

There's also more information about specific works at my new site, The Leominster Galleries. The current temporary collection, housed in Gallery IV, is "The Illustrators Collection" and features works by Kay Nielsen, Edmund Dulac, and Gustave Dore.

The Leominster Galleries: New Old Blog

I'm rebranding my SL on VL site to become The Leominster Galleries. The aim is to provide a web-based support site for my new Second Life-based Leominster Galleries. It's the beginning of 2010 so I'm officially opening the galleries for visitors.

I'll also be starting a group, something I haven't done before. The aim will be to share changes to the gallery to members. I'd also like to think I can find one or two other folks who are as interested in paintings as I am to keep the gallery fresh.

Stop over to The Leominster Galleries and start enjoying your Second Life art experience.