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Steve Cavers (AKA, "Cubey Terra") is a software tech writer and metaverse content developer living in Vancouver, BC.
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- Today I found out that the new owner of Abbotts Aerodrome re-sold it. Will it be sold yet again or developed into something new? #SecondLife | 57 minutes ago
- Have spent almost 8 hours fighting with CSS and Javascript to enable syntax highlighting in Flare. It's still not usable. | 1 hour ago
- Fun discovery! I just found out that I spent the entire day editing the wrong version of a technical document. GAAAAA! | 7 hours ago
- Star Trek: "It's better to be dead than alone in the body of a woman." Dr Janice Lester in "Turnabout Intruder" What the hell, Roddenberry? | 19 hours ago
- I ate a veggie burger, and I think I liked it. | 21 hours ago
- I mid-typed "too" as "tyoo". Autocorrect suggested "typo". Yes. Yes, it was. | 22 hours ago
- My employer is buying me an ergonomic keyboard to replace my pretty-but-impractical chicklet keyboard. http://t.co/qbaPm2n4 It's padded! | 23 hours ago
- "Canadian universities agree... emailing hyperlinks is equal to photocopying" (Techdirt) http://t.co/6ciMkQlQ | 1 day ago
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Author Archives: Steve 'Cubey' Cavers
Eight years in Second Life… and counting…
Eight years ago, I logged in as Cubey Terra for the first time. It was my second time around. My first account, Tillman Terra, lasted only a few days before I deleted it out of fear that I was spending … Continue reading
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Abbotts Aerodrome closes on September 1, 2011. Update (Aug 11, 2011): Although Abbotts Aerodrome is closing and I’m moving on, a buyer has stepped up who will repurpose the Abbotts build (the tower, runway, etc.) as a new facility. See … Continue reading
Posted in SL
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Poutine-on-a-stick… with bacon!
As it’s Canada Day weekend, I thought it would be appropriate to prepare one of Canada’s favourite dishes. It’s the dish that originated in Quebec, is beloved by pub-goers all across Canada, and reviled by cardiologists everywhere. The dish is … Continue reading
Posted in Bacon, Mmm... food, RL
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TerraVend system is offline
If you own and operate a TerraVend vendor, you may have noticed that it’s switched itself off. This is because there is a communication problem between the system’s in-world server and the web server side of things. In short: It’s … Continue reading
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Chocolate-covered bacon… on a stick
Truly, there is no meat more delicious than thick-cut bacon, and no sweet no richer than pure, dark chocolate. What meat-and-sweet pairing could be more natural than to combine the two? Today, I did it. I brought pig and chocolate … Continue reading
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Gridquakes and new coastline
As many of you have noticed, this week’s “gridquakes” have brought with them some extraordinary changes to the geography west of Abbotts. The Linden-owned sandboxes, which have been a fixture since 2004, slid west to unite with Sandbox Island. In … Continue reading
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First Terra aircraft in OpenSim
Well, I’ve done it. In fact, it was absurdly easy to do. I brought my first Terra aircraft into OpenSim. The Imprudence viewer exported the biplane model as XML, minus any textures I didn’t actually own (I’m not sure which … Continue reading
Posted in Creations, SL, Tech
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Northern Voice 2011: Day Two
My impression of Northern Voice might be incomplete since I arrived late, but here are some superficial observations of NV culture in bullet form: It is very popular and very packed. More bums than seats for some talks. Enthusiasm abounds … Continue reading
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Northern Voice 2011: Why am I going?
Months ago, I signed up for a conference that I knew nothing about for reasons that weren’t actually clear to me at the time. It was, admittedly, kind of an impulse buy. I’d heard of Northern Voice, I knew it … Continue reading
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