I am still exploring this world

This virtual world still fascinates me I just have not been blogging about it but tonight I decided to break the silence and once again engage with this blog.

The place will have to have a spring clean and dusting perhaps even a new banner.

In the meanwhile here are two screenshots taken last night on the Beguile aka  Lost Worlds sim. There are loads of nooks and crannies to explore in this sim and I am sure I will return again to it.

Lost worlds sim at sunset

I also discovered there is a Subscribe-O-Matic group you can join (which means it does not take the space of  one of your Sl groups)  It will keep you in touch with events and since the sim also houses a gallery I assume arts news and events are included.  I joined up so I guess I will find out!

The SLURL :http://slurl.com/secondlife/Beguile/98/63/25

Broadband speed in Australia is very very very slow…

I am always belly aching about broadband speed in Australia. Recently the OECD has released a 310-page report entitled OECD Communications Outlook 2007 (available as a PDF file)

Between the covers of this report there is some interesting comparisons of broadband access, speed and price. Not only is Australia is slow to take up broadband but when data was gathered in October 2006 for this report we had the second lowest download speed across the whole OECD! From my own personal experience I haven’t seen any improvement since October last year. I am sure price and speed have something to do with the take up rate of broadband as when you look at this graph you can see just how bad the service is in this country.

Thanks to SLOZ for bringing this report to my attention