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mark :: blog :: sonik
Over the Christmas holiday I joined Second Life. I wasn't expecting to find it interesting as I don't use chat systems at all outside of work (all of the Red Hat Security Response Team work in different locations around the world so irc provides a good crisis room). But I was quickly hooked and started creating shirts, figuring out ways that Sonik could play a live gig, playing Myst-like adventure puzzles, and virtually dancing to great music.
Having discovered libsecondlife and having a few spare hours this weekend I installed mono development tools and knocked up a quick libsecondlife to Jabber interface. All my home automation communicates using XMPP, so by giving my second life avatar the ability to communicate to my Jabber server he can do all sorts of things. My avatar gets notification when the phone rings and can tell me the callers number (and do a cute little animation to pick up a phone), the avatar can turn on and off the house lights, or find the temperatures of rooms.
I've not figured out a use for this yet. I've a few ideas though which will need to wait until there's more free time.
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