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Restoring a Second Life Identity
Revisiting my Dedric Mauriac Second Life archive, I rebuilt thousands of images into a searchable static site and blog. What began as preservation became reflection—reconnecting a virtual life with my real one, and understanding how it shaped who I am today. Read More
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Teaching an Archive to Read Itself
Today I began turning Dedric Mauriac’s Flickr archive into a static, searchable website. After building timelines, tags, and navigation, I experimented with OCR and AI image analysis to extract Second Life simulator names and coordinates embedded in BlogHUD captions. Read More
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Recovering the Dedric Mauriac Flickr Archive
After finally regaining access to my long-dormant Dedric Mauriac Flickr account, I raced to recover more than 1,500 Second Life snapshots before platform changes erased them. A custom API script and digital archaeology helped restore the archive. Read More
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Shadows – Dedric Mauriac
Shadows – Dedric Mauriac My original attempt to view shadows in Second Life failed about a year ago. I figured that I needed to use a special viewer such as Kirstens viewer to do so. I’ve been noticing that my Read More
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Social Media Board – Dedric Mauriac
Social Media Board – Dedric Mauriac I was helping out Hottie Something to get her skype status indicator working. Most people contact me about it with problems because their skype settings hide their status from the web. She didn’t know Read More
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A golden cone – Dedric Mauriac
A golden cone – Dedric Mauriac I’m starting to look into ways of getting people to my shop, and the traffic cone from bletaverse was still fresh in my memory. I purchased the gold version at the bletaverse head quarters. Read More
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Remembering the old days – Dedric Mauriac
Remembering the old days – Dedric Mauriac After finishing setting up some land that I had just acquired, I looked up at the map. It seems that I was next to the first sim that I had purchased land from. Read More
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Open for business – Dedric Mauriac
Open for business – Dedric Mauriac I was talking with Prokofy Neva about the battery idea I had, and they pretty much shot it down. Prokofy pretty much brought up the problem that I wasn’t advertising. I had done quite Read More
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Batteries and the Rental Model – Dedric Mauriac
Batteries and the Rental Model – Dedric Mauriac Recently, Crap Mariner was commenting on the rental model. He suggested that our inventory would soon offer the ability to rent the use of objects. This is similar to how ‘There’ works Read More
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My freebies listed with NCI – Dedric Mauriac
My freebies listed with NCI – Dedric Mauriac Someone told me that they got my unfortunate cookie as a freebie over on help island. They went back to take pictures of it and showed them to me. I went over Read More