Linden are holding another Town Hall on December 20th at 2.30 pm, which converts to December 21st at 9.30am Sydney time.

SLOz will post a transcript of the meeting as it happens if you can’t log in yourself at the time.

Linden today announced the employment of Rika Linden, a Japanese speaking liasion person. It’s encouraging to see the growth of multi-lingual capability in-world. I personally believe an Australian liasion person is probably needed as we speak real English and it may not be understood by other alleged English speakers 😉

It’s the equivalent of a city’s mobile phone network going down – the ‘Search Places’ functionality remains dysfunctional in SL.

Taking a positive slant to an otherwise frustrating issue, let’s look at the mobile phone analogy a little further. With no phone coverage, you actually have to talk to people a little more – admittedly they may be people you’d prefer to only intereact with via a digital signal, but the process of actually talking to them face-to-face may be character building. Hell, your in-world neighbour may be your future spouse and you’ve never noticed them previously because you’ve been off searching for the latest communal hotspot. Between the teleport issues and search issues, Linden may actually be making the world a happier place.

See – I’m an optimist.

The past couple of days have seen near continuous issues for Second Life. At time of writing, there’d been yet another update from Linden on the problems. Over the past twelve hours there’s been consistently high numbers of people logged in, coinciding with the US weekend load, which can’t be be helping matters.

On the positive side – disappearing Linden Dollar balances, disappearing water and other issues are not tending to create ongoing problems. I had a zero Linden balance on one login which was remedied the next login – similar to older issues in the same vein.