As already announced in the talk on TGIB's first year anniversary on January 16th, we launched several new services, and will (hopefully) include several more in the near future. I tried to lay down the reasons for this on Sunday, but in retrospect, I don't think I did a very good job at it. I'm no crowd magnet, and I'm ...

IRC is short for Internet Relay Chat. Basically, it is a chat service that runs on the internet, which brings us to something completely different... THE INTERNET (Dramatic Orchestra Theme, like this ((Come Back To You by Silece Is Sexy, licensed under Creative Commons)) ) The Internet is vast and infinite, and we are mere grains of dust in its endless wastes... ... Sorry, I ...

You might have noticed TGIB was unavailable for a few hours this weekend, and quite wonky for many more hours afterwards. The reason for this is that we moved the site to a dedicated server, which I rented at the beginning of the year. There are several reasons for this: First, it's plain cheaper. I had rented a region for over ...

I really wanted to write about all of the above. (I'll explain the Reggae Mice bit, bear with me.) The point is, as much as I want to write a really good, thoroughly profound and enlightening post on all of these topics, I always end up reading pages after pages of blogposts (including comments - no, I didn't have my ...

[Update May 11th 2010: After recent leaks about data mining and exploits directly related to Emerald developers, I can no longer recommend this viewer for any reason whatsoever. This document here remains for historic purposes.] There are several viewers ((Hippo, Imprudence and Meerkat)) which provide an already built-in solution to access other grids than Second Life. Technically, though, it's possible to ...