KerryJ’s Neotenous Tech

Nathan entranced by his circus toy
Originally uploaded by kerryank

For 7 days Paul and I had a mission - to play with the technologies that most intrigued and entertained us, to give ourselves up to all that was geek, to exhale and to enjoy.
My geek week was largely spent in Second Life, learning some bits about [...]

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Being the Second Life officianado I am, I was looking forward to trying out Google Lively - http://www.lively.com.  Everyone seems to be looking for the “SL killer” — so I wondered, was this it?
I was able to create an account fairly easily and within minutes was styling my new avatar. Hairstyle, haircolour, and a few [...]

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It’s Tuesday of geekweek and Paul and I are having fun just letting go and immersing into techie stuff.
I’ve been in Second Life - learning about building, experimenting with scripts, setting up silly things and generally enjoying myself.
Just for something different, I decided to create my first LOLcat.  And, seeing as I’ve been in SL [...]

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Geeking Out!
Originally uploaded by kerryank

Just a quick (or should I say qik) post before bed time.
Tonight I tried using my Nokia 95 trained on a computer monitor to live stream video from Second Life to the internet using qik.com
By setting up qik on my phone for streaming rather than quality, I didn’t get backed up [...]

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For all of you who say Second Life is too hard — here’s some video of my nephew, not three for MONTHS and navigating his way around after 10 minutes training.
http://blip.tv/file/get/KerryJ-NotYetThreeInSecondLife885.mov
 

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