Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

Merry Christmas from the choir Originally uploaded by aakelley white oleander online

Well, well.  How things change in 24 hours.  I have no idea whether it was due to my post yesterday about my big problems with Amazon telling me 5 days before Christmas that my kids wouldn’t be getting their presents until February (although I would like to think that it was ;-)), but today I…

After looking at all the options on my kids Christmas lists, my wife and I decided that the Pleo was the best overall option.  So we went to their site to find out where we could buy a couple a few weeks ago.  There were 5 stores offered on the official site: Amazon, Best Buy,…

Not blogging too much this next two weeks, but I am keeping up with things in Google Reader and came across this post from csven and though it was another interesting example of a fairly traditional manufacturing firm dipping their toes in the virtual waters of SL. It feels to me that we are emerging…

Yet another example of the social production meme leaking out of IT into the manufactured goods we use every day.  This time it’s beenie babies (no trademark infringement intended): Plushie: easy design system for plush toys – Boing Boing Itty Bitty Titty Committee release

.!. Hmmm…not sure that I like this news coming out of the folks at  Linden Labs that their CTO has resigned due to ‘irreconcilable differences in the technical development of SL’.  If it does remove some internal friction, that could be a good thing.  However anytime someone at the top goes, it’s a recipe for…

.!. Well it seems the fashion industry (with the help of IBM) is leading the way in using Second Life as a platform for collaboration in their PLM efforts. It seems the discrete manufacturing industry is lagging here, still mostly looking at SL as a place to recreate their web sites, have parties and connect…

Congrats to John and Lisa on their newest addition: Elise Margaret « Hilby’s Blog Elise Margaret – may google find this post year’s from now, so you can know a little about what you are getting yourself into: Your father is absolutely insane, but obviously has a some strange hold over your mother.  He actually…