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This is Jass sitting at Education Online Headquarters. This is the space she created for students studying post graduate education IT subjects at the University of New England (UNE), Armidale, NSW, Australia. Armidale is half way between Sydney and Brisbane in the mountains, approximately 2 hours from the beach.

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Very cool setup you have here Flipper, I will enjoy this community blogging Encourage everyone to start one up, it’s easy!

Inspired by The Highlander.  There can be only one.  Entry for the Philotic Energy photo contest, theme = “Energy”.

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Vint Falken’s recently wrote about dropping the word “Resident” and using “Customer” instead. After leaving a (pretty weak) comment on that post, I figured it was time I said a few qualifying statements on the matter.

Now. I don’t know about you, but I personally think that it’s a pretty daft idea, but I’ll come to that. The reason for this is that asking for changes as a Resident has reached a stalemate, and by using Customer, it’s likely that things will change.

I don’t agree with that, or the entire idea. It just seems to “fight fire with fire” and lead to much animosity.

What will be achieved by reducing yourself to a clinical term? It’s an open-ended answer, so there isn’t any right one.

Regardless, I’ll just stick with Resident, thank you very much. (Sorry if I sounded a bit angry there.)

Agree with me? Disagree with me? Think I’m out of my mind? Leave a comment below.

Years and years ago, long before SL was even invented, I had a dream. In this dream I had a wife and two teenage children, and the four of us were on the run, for a reason I never did recall. The world we were in seemed like it was in the future, but a gritty and harsh kind of future. Our journey was taking us north across the States: there was this strong sense of having to reach the border, and then we’d be safe. At one point we were crossing a vast wheatfield, and we came across an old rusted locomotive, where we sheltered for the night. I remember looking at a map in the dream, spreading it out across the rusted metal, tracing the way we were going. When I woke up, that map was burned into my brain and I looked it up in an atlas. We were in North Dakota, headed straight for Winnipeg. I never knew if we ever got there - I woke up before we got to the border.
 
Not so long ago I saw some pics of The Far Away, and when I saw them, I nearly choked on my coffee. This is the wheatfield from my dream, and this is the rusty locomotive.

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Maddie Blaunstein died today.
 
As well as her anime work, she was also a campaigner for the transgender community (she was MTF), and she was a player of Second Life. Many of my SL friends knew her in SL and in RL.

Today I listed my first item for sale on X-Street and On-Rez.

This prefab home is in the Lumi series which is based on a modern,Scandinavian style featuring timber framed construction, open-planrooms and hardwood floors. The houses are economic on prims and arelight and spacious with large decorative windows. The Lumi house may,if you wish, be used easily as a skybox.

All Lumi houses are supplied with doors and fireplaces. The secondstorey is accessed by stairs and not a teleporter. The fireplace isseperate from the main house and may be removed, thus saving 9 prims.

Please note that doors do not feature locking scripts, and windows donot have tint function, however as they are modifyable you may feelfree to add your own should you wish.

The entire house is copy-mod so you may re-texture it. HOWEVER: Pleasemake a copy first, as I do not supply individual textures with thepurchase and if you over-write an original texture you will not be ableto get it back. I will not replace a house that has been re-textured.

DIMENSIONS:

The Lumi 30 has a footprint of 20×30m and will fit easily on a 2048parcel. It is 2 storeys high, and the approximate total height is 10m.It will also fit on a standard square 1024 parcel but it will be VERYcramped and will go right up to your borders so it is not reccommended.If you have a smaller parcel please be sure you know not just the areabut also the length and width of your property.

Prim count: 82 total (73 without fireplace)

http://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=1079080

http://shop.onrez.com/item/871488

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