Josef Balbozar

Hi ChaosKriz, There are places where you can model for reward; you'll need to apply and it is time consuming 'though but could get you started in our world. (You might want to start with Flavor Country - a suggestion only) Enjoy !

Hello Athena, Would the sim owner perhaps oblige for you ?

Hi everyone, Actually what you did could be classed as 'passing off' or using someone else's brand name as your own and so it is quite right that the offending items should be removed. If you were a rl business using my brand name I would take action.... against you and the service providers

Hi Dragon and Deja, Not to mention views from cache and third parties which do not even feature in any of the 'stats' ....

Hello Fyness and Jadeclaw, Actually having written that ... real life dimensions are often unworkable in-world. Just one example - the cubiculum project was real life sized to start with but I had to play around with the dimensions in-world to make it workable. Easy to forget that many avatars are 7' tall ! Here is a pic to illustrate :

Hi Jadeclaw, Yes you're right.... But that would be an enormous house !

Firestorm is always good for viewing but then one needs photo-editing software as well for the post processing. Any suggestions that would not break the bank ? Excellent emotive portraiture ....

Hello Fyness, One work around would be to make a prim the size of a 2048 parcel (you might want to do this at a premium sand-box it would be double the size of your 1024) Then rez your new house onto it to assess the fit. ;-) Hope this helps in some way

Hello Amethyst, Your comment ignores the point and frankly it is difficult to see why you made it. Except perhaps as an exercise in personal ' I feel good Jack !' It is time you stopped doing that - Surely as I wrote earlier, some people would say that real customer service would entail pro-actively reminding those less experimented in our world that a back-up should be made by whatever means available... Some would go so far as to offer to keep them. Some people would say that money machine will only function properly if it is maintained properly and although it may be possible to catch a tenant once, twice is not possible. Here is a pic of the cliff top walk prior to completion :

The past weeks have been an amazing time for me, finally after a couple of years of lurking around I decided to rent a sim from Miriam Chung Estates. I paid one month's rent in advance at the beginning of the month and then put a great deal of effort into creating Santo Domingo my new firtual environment. Why one month ? Here is a snap of part of Santo Domingo .... Well this suits my cashflow even though the advertised rates are weekly. I invited some well known residents to exhibit their photographs at Santo Domingo and had lined up exhibitors to start in January. Everything was going well and the sim was looking truly spectacular. Then it happened while I was completing a few final adjustments to a cliff top walk I'd landscaped. I pressed the reset button in error and flattened the entire landscape - Unfortunately, I cannot roll back the clock to get my time back so as to re-do the sim ! Anyway, Miriam Chung Estates do not allow their tenants to make terrain backups and they do not keep back-ups either. So when I contacted Miriam to ask if it would be possible to do a roll back so as to recover my work and my precious time it came as a great disillusionment to hear from her that in my case a roll back would not be done by the people she rents her estates from. She also does not keep back-ups for her tenants. Reluctantly I realized it would be necessary to abandon the project because I must go back to work after my annual leave and so do not have the time needed to re-do the terrain. There has been no re-fund of the weeks paid in advance and my objects have not been returned either. Miriam says they will stay there until my rental expires ? Some people would say this event illustrates why landscape or terrain work should be backed up in common with all other things computer. Some would also say they would never pay more than one week's rent in advance and would not do business with certain Estate Owners in-world. Also some would say to make sure you can contact them and be aware that it may be a surrogate you're dealing with when 24/7 support is on offer even though they all use one avatar name in common. CAVEAT EMPTOR.

2012 ... Evolution Resolution ... Josef Balbozar

The ability to change avatar appearance is fun and a remarkable feature of SL - here is a selection from Josef's many 'guises since 2007 ...