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As I noted in Nobody Fugazi's Blog Starting on Your2ndPlace.com - my main blog for SecondLife will be moving here. The reasoning behind it is simple - I can discuss high level stuff here, but some of the nitty gritty SecondLife stuff simply doesn't fit here. KnowProSE.com is a fairly large site with diverse traffic, so high level SecondLife stuff will remain here but will be mixed in with other things. This is just to keep things more easily found; the day to day goings-on will be found at Your2ndPlace.com.

I'll toss highlights up here on KnowProSE.com as applicable.

Remember when I wrote 'Landbaron Merlin Getting His Just Rewards?'. The technology arms race continues.

Apparently, the members of a group called 'Best in SL' are pulling the same trick on other people that was played on Landbaron Merlin. The quick switching of prices caught Muratus LosAngeles for 43,000L today when he was buying a piece of land at 4,300L. A 512 m² piece of land. That is a 38,700 Linden dollar difference. That is approximately $139 US.

That is a big chunk of change.

Muratus swears that the confirmation screens all said 4,300 Lindens, and he said he has the snapshots to prove it. Is he the first person to get caught? No. Sergio Sobocinski was the first victim of this - and there have been others whose permission I do not have to use their names.

And remember what Linden Lab's Cory Linden said in response to Chaos Mohr:

[12:28] Jeska Linden shouts: Chaos Mohr: What is being done to address land database issues which result in things such as parcels being paid for and not transferring, parcels being sold to multiple people etc? This seems to be a major technical issue which keeps cropping up and hasn’t been fixed yet.
[12:28] Cory Linden shouts: These are likely symtpoms of the broader stresses on the central db and transactions..
[12:29] Cory Linden shouts: as I mentioned int he blog post, we are attacking these problems in two ways, to first identity weak spots in the current system and to build a better transaction system as well.

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<p>After some things started just... disappearing... on the isle of <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sentience/128/128/0" target =_blank>Sentience</a> (plug: land still available), I flew around the sim edges. Sure enough, stuff was piling up at an edge. I tried taking stuff. Nope. I tried returning stuff. Nope. </p>