{"id":882,"date":"2005-08-02T04:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.co.uk\/SU\/?p=882"},"modified":"2022-02-08T22:00:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T14:00:46","slug":"882","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/882\/","title":{"rendered":"First Steps in Second Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><s>http:\/\/img162.imageshack.us\/img162\/975\/2ndlifeb3np.jpg<\/s><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ive been taking my first steps in Second Life&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/unknown.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/unknown.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/unknown-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/unknown-375x300.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>This is me in Second Life<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2ndlifehighdef_001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2ndlifehighdef_001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2ndlifehighdef_001.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2ndlifehighdef_001-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2ndlifehighdef_001-325x300.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A hammock is a great place to relax\u2026.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2ndcar_001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2ndcar_001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2ndcar_001.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2ndcar_001-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2ndcar_001-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>and for those country roads I also <em>bought<\/em> a car.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Update 2022:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These pictures look so dated because at the time my computer was a snail and Second Life has developed a lot &#8211; but to be honest it never really lived up to its potential. The Achilles heel of Second Life is that it is not scalable and the handover between one virtual square of 256 x 256 meters is not smooth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a positive note glad to see that Meta and Alphabet (Facepage and Goggle) tried meta verses and failed. Google had the good grace to try early and quit early. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Second Life is still free to play &#8211; although they no longer pay you to be there &#8211; I got in early enough to have that grandfathered into my account .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Download it here:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondlife.com\">https:\/\/secondlife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/img162.imageshack.us\/img162\/975\/2ndlifeb3np.jpg Ive been taking my first steps in Second Life&#8230; Update 2022: These pictures look so dated because at the time my computer was a snail and Second Life has developed a lot &#8211; but to be honest it never &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/882\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-secondlife","category-updated-2022"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3794,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/3794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}