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.!. Hmmm…not sure that I like this news coming out of the folks at  Linden Labs that their CTO has resigned due to ‘irreconcilable differences in the technical development of SL’.  If it does remove some internal friction, that could be a good thing.  However anytime someone at the top goes, it’s a recipe for…

.!. Well it seems the fashion industry (with the help of IBM) is leading the way in using Second Life as a platform for collaboration in their PLM efforts. It seems the discrete manufacturing industry is lagging here, still mostly looking at SL as a place to recreate their web sites, have parties and connect…

Congrats to John and Lisa on their newest addition: Elise Margaret « Hilby’s Blog Elise Margaret – may google find this post year’s from now, so you can know a little about what you are getting yourself into: Your father is absolutely insane, but obviously has a some strange hold over your mother.  He actually…

Those of you that follow me on Twitter know that I have been toying around with what makes a CAD system interesting to younger children, specifically 10-14 year olds.  While I don’t have any kids in that agre group, I do have an eight year old who is going on 12, so I though I…

I have been debating which ‘kid-friendly’ laptop to get for my kids this Christmas: the Asus EEE or the OLPC XO. After reading reviews, thinking about the social implications of both and trying to figure out which one I would want to play with the most ;-)…my kids tell me last night they want this:…

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I have been playing around with the new Google Maps for Mobile on my HTC Touch.  The key feature of this new version is that it uses the cell phone tower you are connected to in order to approximate where you are currently located.  That’s right: all you Blackberry buyers with your integrated GPS just…

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