@Tibbon is back in action. After about ~5 hours of things being really odd (ie. banned from Twitter) and 
much bitching and complaining my account is all set. In the end it seems that myself @pfanderson, @davedelaney, @conniecrosby and @pknit were deleted/banned. I’d really like to thank everyone for helping me out and trying to get the attention of the management at Twitter. As a very cool aftereffect of this, while I’m still following everyone (I see their updates), it shows that I’m following zero people. That’s the ultimate ratio! lol
I’d like to thanks everyone that noticed and helped complain (err, I mean use social media) to help:
I’m still curious as to what happened. The Status blog tells nothing. Companies should perhaps take this as a small lesson. If you’re twittering about watching a movie and having beer, and customer service complaints are racking up on twitter about your service… then things start to look bad. Your illusion of being ‘busy’ gets broken. I totally realize that all people and all companies deserve chill time, but just keep an eye on the customer service too.
I think computers just want me to stop using them.
Today I went to the Harvard Cyberposium 13, where Ray Kurzweil, Philip Rosedale (CEO Linden Labs) and Walt Mossberg (WSJ Tech writer) all spoke. I haven’t really messed around all that much with Second Life and after seeing him using it some more, and talking about it I really was hoping to go home tonight, relax and screw around with SL.
Well, I had SL installed, but it was an older version. I decided to play for a bit while the new one was downloading (which was actually a pretty slow download considering that its on Amazon’s S3 servers). Anyway, after playing for a bit the game hangs for whatever reason. In fact it hangs the computer entirely. Reboot. Maybe I really needed that update since I’m running Leopard now.
I installed the update, and now I click connect and it says, “Logging in. Second Life may appear frozen. Please wait.” Well it just keeps saying that and I keep waiting. Checking on http://secondlife.com/status it doesn’t indicate anything was wrong. They had some problems near Dallas, but they said that was fixed.
I thought maybe there was a preferences file that was screwed up, so I trashed my Application Support folder. No help, same thing. I tried my neighbors wireless connection instead of mine to see if it was a firewall/connnection thing. Nope. I’ve never had a firewall problem with SL in fact.
So here I am, wanting to finally play it and it’s not working. It’s probably something simple that’s going wrong, but it really reminds me of the “old days” where things just didn’t work quite often even if you were doing the right thing. Be it dialing up to an old BBS pre-WWW days, and it sometimes working, and sometimes not. Or in the late 90′s trying to get The Realm or Ultima Online working and getting similar stupid messages and nothing updated on the site.
Hopefully, it will be resolve soon and this isn’t just me.
(Oh, after a while it does time out and say it was unable to login). Fun.
UPDATE: Maybe I logged off in Dallas? http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/11/10/network-issues-3/
UPDATE: It started working about 20 minutes after I blogged this. I’m still having massive stability problems, which seem to be common in SL apparently. I read that upwards of 20-30% of sessions seem to ‘crash’ or don’t log out gracefully (which is normally a crash, since the viewer would log out properly). Not only does it crash, but it totally freezes my Macbook Pro and requires a reset. So much for protected memory space.
