MAKE: Coming Full Circle -AND- Making a life of SL

It started as an April Fool's Day joke.

I don't think Bub Linden realized his joke would be soon coming to fruition not more than half a year later! (The book pictured was on the SL homepage on April 1, 2005.)

At Second Life Community Convention 2005, it was leaked that O'Reilly was interested in doing a resident-contributed book about SL. This was in addition to the discussion by SL Herald writer Mark Wallace discussing O'Reilly publishing his joint book with co-Heralder Pete Ludlow. (Which also was covered at SL Future Salon, by the way.) As a reader and fan of O'Reilly's software-oriented instructional books, I got excited that such a big, notable meatspace tech company was interested in SL.

Then a friend of mine, who reads Make at his office, e-mailed me that Make had been interested in SL. I got right on the case here.

Cyberlebrity in our midst

Last night at the latest SL Future Salon, Make magazine editor Phillip Torrone was the featured guest. Aside from presenting what Make does to attendees, he spoke about the upcoming SL Hacks book project. Wilder Linden announced that she was involved from the Linden side of things.

Also last night, that same friend also logged onto SL for the first time, and was able to attend.

So many things just came full circle.

Speaking of Making things ... I'm making a life of SL

That's right. Yesterday morning I gave 2 weeks' notice to my current employer. Starting January, I will be self-employed doing SL work full-time! It's an exciting jump for me, obviously. For those curious, the business plan consists of a lot of contracting, expanding my SL business, and doing long-term projects like my SL search engine in development.

I'd love to personally reminisce about this huge life-changing decision for me, but this is a blog I'd like to keep on focus for SL Technology. So to all the people out there who've encouraged and inspired me in my jump: Thanks. You folks should know who you are. :)