Category Archives: Posts

Amuse-gueule

By Rheta Shan | Published: February 3, 2008

Rheta’s human got herself a new love. Worse than a person, it is a machine.

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Interlude

By Rheta Shan | Published: December 21, 2007

When I read about the readability grade badges for blogs on Critic’s Rants, I just knew I had to get mine

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Plus ça change…

By Rheta Shan | Published: December 12, 2007

Do my eulogies bring people back? Hardly, but Katharine Berry and Nicholaz Beresford are back into the fray nonetheless. Welcome back.

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Age and Treachery revisited

By Rheta Shan | Published: November 23, 2007

A farewell to AjaxLife creator Katharine Berry, who has pulled her service from the web in the midst of a flame war.

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Wild, wild west 2.0 continued

By Rheta Shan | Published: November 14, 2007

Doug McMahon thinks the Metaverse needs a consitution. I agree, obviously.

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Sysiphus gives up

By Rheta Shan | Published: November 2, 2007

Nicholaz Beresford, aka ‘The Mad Patcher’, whose patched Second LifeYou-Know-Where viewer has been a boon to all hardcore residents, finally gives up his one-man quest to fix Linden Lab’s inadequacies.

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Mapping the grid

By Rheta Shan | Published: October 18, 2007

Sloog and Gridmarker have brought tag-based social bookmarking to Second LifeYou-Know-Where. I think this was needed, and explain why I prefer Gridmarker.

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    This was the blog of Rheta Shan, the Second Life persona of my friend Valérie. Valérie died April 3rd, this year, in an accident as stupid as it was tragic.
    The contents of this blog will remain up, for the time being, in memory of the wonderful person she was. Feel free to explore, and to pay your respects here.