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This section is for all things Second Life, in which my main avatar is Ee Maculate, from my educational interests (centered on Warwick University Maths island), to my Castle in Fourmile and my SLideshow Viewer.

Fourmile with Shadows When did Second Life viewer have shadows added as an option? Oh well... found the setting now and it looks cool! Perhaps it's due to the fact that my previous graphics cards couldn't handle it. Here's a picture of the entrance to Fourmile Castle resplende...
Second Life Maths Sculptures This post is to highlight the various sculptures scattered around the Second Life "Warwick University Maths" island, which can be accessed at this SLURL. There is always a lot of discussion over the impact of education using Virtual Worlds (usually agains...
Ee's SLideshow Viewer and Second Life 2.0 So, Linden Labs caught everyone by surprise and made the Beta 2.0 viewer the main release for new residents, despite there being numerous bugs that still need to be fixed. Pertinent to Ee's SLideshow viewer are the new shared media facilities, or more precisely changes to parcel media.
Christmas on Warwick University Maths Island A freak snowstorm has hit the tropical Second Life island of the Warwick University Maths department (SLURL: http://tinyurl.com/56ykb2), conincidentally just in time for the Christmas break!
Boy Lane's Rainbow Viewer for Netbooks Since my "recent" post on the Meerkat Viewer and it's plus points for use on netbooks I have come across a version of Boy Lane's excellent Rainbow Viewer optimised for use on Netbooks. This has recently been updated to comply with the official viewer's fo...
Second Life + LaTeX = SLaTeX It has long been a problem that one of the biggest obstacles to doing mathematics in Second Life was the inability to write equations. Of course, there is a counter argument that this forces you to be more imaginative in finding ways to get the same i...
Fourmile Castle Rentals Fourmile Castle Rentals is now ready for business in Second Life. Main office in Fourmile: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fourmile/79/239/152 It's been an aim to rent out parts of the castle for a while now, after several requests over the past...
SLideshow Viewer 3.0 for Second Life After a few false starts, I have finally released SLideshow Viewer 3.0 into the wild. Why has it taken so long? Well it would seem that people wait until they sense I am just about to release it and then I get an IM asking for a custom feature... ....