For the past fifteen hours or so, Second Life has been having significant problems and has been down much of the time. So, like many hard-core virtual world residents, I’ve used this as an opportunity to check in on some of the OpenSim based worlds.

My inventory on all of the grids seems to have gotten lost, a frequent problem on the OpenSim based grids, and my avatar has reverted to an OpenSim Ruth. Second Inventory may be a key to addressing this, and the latest version supports backing up and restoring objects on a few of the key OpenSim based grids.

Central Grid was up and running nicely. There wasn’t anyone logged in when I stopped by before. I partially uploaded some of my objects that I had backed up from Second Life Main Grid before it went down. I’ve logged back in, and find a few other people there. Unfortunately, chat and inventory are not responding, so it is pretty useless.

OSGrid was up and running nicely for a while. It gave random error messages claiming I was logged in, and I could not get Second Inventory to log in. For quite a period, I couldn’t get in with a regular Second Life client either. I’ve gotten back in, but I can’t change what I’m wearing. Chat has been sporadic as well.

I briefly checked into OpenLifeGrid, but not only was no one there, there was no thing around either.

I just wish some of the new virtual worlds that will be going into beta this month or over the next few months, that I saw at Virtual Worlds 2008 were up and running. They might really be the place to hang out.

On the other hand, I need to catch up on email, writing, housework, family time, and for that matter simply catching up on my sleep.