Schipol and IBM Codestation

I had intended to write a witty yet erudite piece concerning the work currently being carried out by those stalwarts of SL at OpenSecondLife.org - and maybe one day I will. But Nic at KZero alerted me to the existence of Frankfurt City island - and ever eager to take up a challenge, I set out to find out more.

Well, my efforts on Frankfurt were in vain - but I did spot the island of Schipol to the NW. I popped over and found an odd mix of buildings - there was an impressively rendered church/cathedral (piccies below), a spacious modern house and an office bunker thing (half built) than can best be described as "Dilbert-World in waiting". I have no idea what the plan is for this place, but my suspicion is that it will ultimately just be a place to buy/rent land - and the current building works are experiments by builders with time on their hands. If you know better, please comment.


I also popped by yet another IBM site - IBM Codestation. This is a single island, entirely detached from the main IBM cluster, deep in the Developer Archipelago, and still in the throes of development itself. There are 2 main components, a labyrinth- into which you can unleash robots (pick up a HUD and have a play) - and a meeting pavillion. I took some piccies of the maze and pavillion - but the latter is still, basically, grey and has a way to go before it is ready. (I have no idea why I'm not blocked from entering - but thanks, IBM, I appreciate it)

But for the straight poop - let's see what Big Blue themselves have to say about Codestation:


Oh... and while we're vaguely on a Dutch riff here... you might also want to check out BNN, "Holland's only public broadcaster to target young adults (13-19 and 20-34 year-olds)" are building an island - about half completed as far as I can tell - but worth checking in any case.

Or maybe you wanna wait until it launches officially... :-)