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Continue reading →: The Party’s over…
Despite all my protestations to the contrary, it seems I was nervous about yesterday’s awards ceremony. When the Second Life server crashed at precisely the time we were due to start, my heart sank. Within minutes, however, the server was back up. My “land” was accessible again and the guests…
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Continue reading →: The Blogpower Awards – today at 1400 London Time
Well, the day has arrived. And I think we are all ready. In a short time, and despite using a dial-up connection, James Higham has become quite at home in Second Life. The Blogpower community in SL has helped him through a rapid apprenticeship and yesterday we were finally able…
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Continue reading →: The USS Higham, and the man himself
It’s the final day of preparations. Tomorrow at 1400 London Time, the Blogpower Awards will be presented in Second Life. Yesterday, the founder and guiding spirit of Blogpower, James Higham, finally made his SL debut. After a tetchy start beset with difficulties, but with the guidance of a number of…
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Continue reading →: The Future of Second Life
Photorealistic, but still difficult to get through those damned doors…. h/t Shades of Grey
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Continue reading →: UK ‘one of worst countries for social mobility’
Link: UK ‘one of worst countries for social mobility’ | Uk News | News | Telegraph. According to Labour’s "Schools Minister," Jim Knight (my emphasis); "While we continue to see a flow of negative speculation about the current state of education, the facts tell a different story. Pupils achieved the…
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Continue reading →: In the home straight
We are in the final approaches now to the Blogpower Awards ceremony next Sunday. Normal service will soon be resumed at this blog, for good or ill. I thank my readers who are not attending, or who find the whole Second Life (SL) thing a bore, for their patience. I…
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Continue reading →: Good news!
Welshcakes Limoncello’s popularity and influence in Blogpower is rivalled only by that of Ellee, Ruthie and of course "Mr Blogpower" himself. Since she first registered her SL identity (Welshcakes Rossini) a number of people have told me they were "hanging around" in SL in the hope of meeting her. I…
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Continue reading →: Get ready to dance.
The dance floor is now set up by the bar in the ballroom of the Air Liner "Limoncello". Blogpower members are welcome to join me here in the half hour before the ceremony on July 1st for a bracer or two before the big day. All guests are welcome to…
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Continue reading →: Preparations still continue for July 1st…
Several Blogpower members are now regular visitors to our awards venue in Second Life. I am missing a lot of sleep chatting to them because of time differences, but it’s fun. Welshcakes has run into technical difficulties, but we are hoping that Ian Appleby at Imagined Community will be able…
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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.
Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.
He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that
“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
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