Yesterday I visited the new home of my dear friend Lu Stapleton. It's a very nice and modern house somewhere on the mainland, which is definitely a good fit. She was quite impressed by the work of the builder and for sure is going to recommend him to others.
While I was there, some classic music played on the parcel. She told me that she bought SLTunes, a nice interface for iTunes to set the media URL on the parcel based on the radio station list in iTunes. It was a cheap buy, doesn't get in the way and gets its job done. A well thought out piece of software, just like all software should be. A tool that doesn't get in your way!
Well, I was curious, so I used Google to find some information about this tool and stumpled upon the website of the maker, Darius Lehane, named "Darius Lehane's Second Life." Doh!
Ok, the name of my blog isn't exactly brilliant, either, but I gave the site a try and it was worth it. First, if you want to buy some nice software, you can get some very good things there.
But, more important and fun to read for me, was Mr. Lehane's "Hall of Shame". It's a list of 8 points and listing some of in his opinion bad developments in SL. And guess what? He's right!
For example he mentions empty malls (even the idea of opening another mall is bad), Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong and other stuff. It's worth a read!
Well, he also has a short list of three points of "Top Places" in his opinion, also a very nice read.
And last, but not least, his very interesting article "Guide to Land: How to Own Land and Make Money (or not spend much)." It has some very good tips you should consider when buying land and tells you in all glorious details why it sometimes could be better to buy land from a land baron, and sometimes it is better to buy on mainland and the differences between these two fundamental choices.