Check out all the snapshots from the latest Creators’ Playgroup show and tell!

Wowzers, Squidograms are selling like hotcakes! I guess people must like the slimy personal touch that comes with expressing your love via cephalopod courier! And really, who can blame them for that?

Anyway, in response to the fantastic demand for squiddy action (see, I knew I wasn’t the only one!), and to save you guys from Repetitive Stress Injury in your mouse-clicking finger, I’ve set out Squidogram Multipacks! Now you can buy 5 or 10 Squidograms in one shot!

But remember, these loverly Kissing Squidograms are only available through today! (Actually until whenever I wake up tomorrow morning/afternoon.)

So tell that special someone how much they excite your neural fibers and make your chromatophores quiver and dilate with glee!

Just a reminder for those hoping to send some squiddy action to their loved ones: I’ll be taking the special Valentine’s Day edition Kissing Squidogram off the shelves on Feb 15! You’ve only got a few days left to express your romantical feelings via kissing cephalopod, so you’d better drop by Cuddlefish Junction soon!

My entry for Codebastard Redgrave’s logo design contest! Click for a bigger version!

Two takes on it. I’m partial to the cutout version on top, myself.

P.S. The B may, or may not, stand for (or look like) Bootah.

Flowers? Boring. Jewelry? Too much bling. Chocolate? Yummy, but cliché.

This Valentine’s Day, give your special someone a gift they’ll never be able to forget!

The Cuddlefish Junction Kissing Squidogram is a little bit like a candygram… except instead of a box of candy, the recipient gets a squid attached to their face! The Kissing Squidogram comes with a trained (and rather amorous) squid in a lovely decorative bucket; the squid will pop out, deliver a personalized message to your sweetie, then give them a big kiss on the lips!

And you know nothing says I love you and I can’t keep my tentacles off you quite like a kissing squid!

Each Squidogram is just L$50, but you’d better hurry — after February 14, this special edition Kissing Squidogram with V-Day colors is being taken off the shelves and shipped to my secret underwater lair to join my Cephalopod World Domination Force.

…Oops, did I type that out loud?

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Scripters (myself included) have long bemoaned the lack of any way to write text to a notecard. You can read text from a notecard (although it’s a PITA due to LL’s non-blocking dataserver lookup; and it’s also apparently not possible with notecards that have any embedded inventory items like landmarks), but there’s no way to write to it. That means you can’t save script settings or data to a notecard so that they persist between script resets.

Scripters, being naturally clever folk, have instead relied on the fact that you can change an object’s name and description. So, just save the settings/data to the object’s description, and it’ll be there the next time the script runs! This was especially handy because the servers have previously allowed much longer descriptions to be saved than they were supposed to.

Of course, anyone who has been following the Linden Blog should now be aware that the name/description size limits will now be enforced. I won’t say much about that, except to note that this is another instance of “Very useful exploit-turned-essential-tool that occasionally caused problems, so the Lindens removed the tool rather than fixed the problems”. See also: Megaprims.

What I’m more interested in right now, is the excuses the Lindens give about why we’re not allowed to write to notecards. For example, Prospero Linden wrote:

Re: storing persistent data : the way the asset sever works, a UUID is a unique identifier to an asset. If you change anything, it has to be a new asset– because if somebody else, say, had the same notecard before it was changed, you don’t want your edits to go to this other person’s notecard. It can happen that different people with the same object in their inventory in fact just point to the same UUID in the asset server. If you were to be able to write to a notecard from the script, *every* write command would create a new asset, which would create a load of additional problems.

I call bullshit.

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