I just wanted to take this chance to wish all my friends a happy christmas. Its been a crazy year in some respects with lows and highs.

Smokey passing in April  was by far the worst thing that happened but she is still with me, curled up all warm and toasty around my heart.
Then Muffin wandered in and has got herself firmly attached - shes experiencing her first real christmas (yes the tree is still standing).

A girls aloud/sims christmas :)

I’ll be making the rounds into all the mmos/virtual world I haven’t been into enough of late to give my wishes to everyone.

I hope you all have a great christmas!

I was in the market for a new keyboard the other week and after looking around and seeing the quite poor selection around at the moment I decided to get one with an illuminated keyboard - I often find myself typing late at night (and making loads of typos - yes I am a 2 finger typer).
My usual choice of keyboard is Microsoft so naturally the first keyboard I looked at was the Reclusa which is a Microsoft/Razer joint hardware venture (Razor being a company known for producing gaming hardware like the stunning diamondback mouse I have).

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There are all kinds of crazy offers currently going on over at Daz3d.
Not only have they made Bryce 5.5 a totally free download but you can also upgrade to the newest version for only $19.95 (for a limited time).

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I’m currently having fun playing with Bryce 6.2 and I’m loving the HDRI they have added to the program.

Amazing realism is now possible

While I’m playing with it I will post some of my efforts onto the blog for everyone to see (and hopefully enjoy).
So without any more wasted time lets start out with the ‘balls’ pic above;

This was mainly a test of the new HDRI system, there are no lights in this image other than what is coming from the HDRI. Amazing huh? I think so.

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This could be huge. Anshe Chung studios has made a press release detailing their plans to unite the virtual economies of SL/EU/IMVU. Anshe Chung Studios is preparing to launch a virtual financial market, financial products and a set of services that are going to, for the first time, allow direct capital flow and investment across virtual world boundaries. This step will be the first of many in the creation of an open, cross platform Metaverse economy that transcends individual virtual worlds.

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