At the moment I’m really into bread.

I was buying assorted “pick ‘n’ mix” from my local Morrisons supermarket, but I have a breadmaker in my cupboard collecting dust and its now my best friend in the kitchen.

While second life was offline for updates today I made some really yummy bread with sundried tomatoes and mixed herbs. This little machine produced a crispy crusted, fluffy centred loaf from a pile of water, flour, salt, sugar, herbs and yeast and I cant describe how tasty it is or the wonderful aroma I have been smelling all afternoon (4hrs cooking time).

Here is a photo right from my plate as I write this. I’m enjoying this bread with a mug of steaming hot chicken and vegetable soup.

Logging on to Second life today will give you the following pop-up:

Three changes have been made and the main one, Section 4.2 is a direct response to copybot;

4.2 You agree to use Second Life as provided, without unauthorized software or other means of access or use. You will not make unauthorized works from or conduct unauthorized distribution of the Linden Software.

Full text here
Sadly this is too little, too late. I wasn’t around for the whole copybot fiasco but it just affirms that I was correct when I stopped producing content for SL. Linden Lab don’t actually care who or how many have been ripped off with this - but they act to protect their software.

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Pytt i Panna (pronounced pitt-ee-pan-A) is a Swedish dish that is quick, easy and cheap to make - its basically a stir-fry with leftovers and story has it that the recepie was first used on Swedish fishing boats where lack of ingredients was a problem.

I’ve had this many times in Sweden - frozen in bags through to top restaurants. The main base of the food is the potatoe and onion, all meats can be changed for any other meat - even those tinned hot dog sausages are great in the mix or just standard bacon. Don’t be afraid to try the raw egg yolk, its actually okay.

This recepie serves approx 3 people.
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One of the big pastimes in Second life is Slingo which we all love to play.
Over at reflexive a new game has just been launched - Slingo Quest.

Its actually very similar to the variations you will have played in SL, the gameplay is fast and its a lot of fun - One of those addictive games you can’t put down.

You can play it for free for 60 minutes and then if you want to carry on its only $19.95 to buy the full version, which is a bargin.

Screenies:

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Due to a bug in the current code of Secondlife it is possible to generate avatars of huge size if you know how to do it. The images are 100% untouched.

Look closely and you will see robin in those pictures at normal avatar size.
The problem is that the lag is unbearable and it takes a good hour to cross a sim - I have no idea why. Also the camera is a little unstable and shakes uncontrolably quite often.

Enjoy the pics and no I’m not telling how to do it.