Fergus Laryukov’s blog

So long, George

2008-06-24T05:42:58Z

One of the greats passed yesterday. George Carlin left for that great stage in the sky on Sunday evening and shall be sorely missed. His style of humor was not for everyone, but I believe he tried to offend everyone and mostly succeeded at one ti...

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Being Where I Should Be

2007-10-07T03:40:11Z

It's been a while, hasn't it? I managed to spend some time in SL a couple of months ago and a few hours last month, but RL absolutely kicked my backside during the summer and is still doing it. Short on sleep, short on time, too much to do and no...

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Money Matters

2007-06-03T13:51:57Z

Yesterday's Linden blog entry over foreign transaction fees seems to have generated a bit of bruhaha, too. Most of the comments seem to be variations on a theme: why does a US company use a UK bank to process its electronic transactions? My initia...

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Keeping SL Safe? For Whom?

2007-06-02T00:15:30Z

Of all of the more recent posts on the SL blog, none seems to have generated as much comment as this one from yesterday (5/31): The diversity of things to see and do within Second Life is almost unimaginable, but our community has made it clear t...

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What's the Purpose?

2007-05-28T19:06:52Z

An article by Mitch Wagner at Information Week a while back got me to thinking: what's the purpose to SL? People are joining the community at a farly fast clip, but once they have joined, then what? Mitch's article attempted to deal with that que...

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The Dream Fulfilled?

2007-05-25T20:14:59Z

Last night, the Level Playing Field Institute hosted an event in Palo Alto, California. The event was somewhat mirrored in SL through streaming media. Mitch Kapor (chairman of Linden Labs, founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and creato...

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It is to laugh...

2007-05-19T22:55:58Z

The alternator on my car gave up the ghost rather unexpectedly last weekend and I was not able to leave it with a mechanic. I was dreading the prospect of being without wheels for a week (I only live a mile or so from where I work, so it was poten...

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An Ounce of Prevention...

2007-05-19T18:06:35Z

I believe that it was on New Year's Eve 1999 when a Russian friend made an observation regarding Germans (the details of that night are a bit fuzzy, but I vaguely recall that the world did not come to an end at midnight). The observation stemmed f...

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Infidelities and such

2007-05-16T19:51:00Z

A few weeks ago I came across an article somewhere on MSN relating the author's experience as "the other woman" in an on-going affair with a married man. I regret that I did not bookmark the article so that I could at least provide a link, but I w...

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My Philosophy....

2007-05-09T22:14:36Z

At one of the many chats and discussions that take place at Philosophy House, someone asked me about my own philosophy (perhaps that's why it's called Philosophy House -- wow! What a concept!). I was pretty much thrown for a loop by it, too. Not s...

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