KessKreations

This just in from Rebecca Vacano:

Announcing the Platinum Supermodel of the Year Contest 2008

Amazing Prizes:

1st Prize - L$25,000
2nd Prize - L$10,000
3rd Prize - L$5,000

To enter the modelling competition submit a full perm pic of yourself modelling a Platinum Item with a notecard explaining what you are modelling to Rebecca Vacano.

I will then post your entry on the contest boards posted on the outer walls of the Platinum World sim.

Its then up to the public to vote and decide!

Voting closes on the 15th June 2008 and winners will be announced to all the platinum groups and on the website.

Remember - you must be modelling a product bought at Platinum World to qualify!

Good Luck and a landmark attached to go to Platinum World!

Click for SLURL Platinum World

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Did I mention KessKreations has a store in Platinum World? Well now I have!
Also if I see KessKreations in your entry I will send you a surprise.

****My store cards ARE NOT accepted at Platinum World****

I met Todd Borst through the sandbox early on in my SL career. My husband knows him and Jadz0r made me purchase puppeteer (when it came out) because “so much could be done with it”. I used it for personal stuff, but Todd really pushes the limit with his own product. Recently he showed me his Mean Kitty. Naturally, it’s a cat, therefore I must obtain said item. (especially in black!)

This cat is the cutest accessory on the grid. Obviously I am not the only one who thinks so because it’s #1 on SlExchange. First of all, it does so many cute things, but in particular I love the back and forth pissed off look it gives. If anyone touches it, it’ll scratch their eyes out. I love dis cat!

Here’s a picture of how I wear my Mean Kitty. My tiny otter friend Noam wears his in his hat too. It was his idea.

Here’s a link to obtain a Mean Kitty for yourself!!! 

See how cute he is as he rests in my hat??!?! Yes, he’s that cute!!!
The hat is created by my wonderful Brit friend, Orion Raymaker.  (Yes he is the Orion necklace fame)  I made him put a feather in it, so, the version sold doesn’t have it. I require feathers because I am pimp. The rest of the outfit is Wynx ears, ETD freeish hair, Last Call pants, PixelDolls top, Last Call Jacket, and my ring and my disco-ball necklace (necklace is not sold)

On last thing before this gets TL;DR: Go to Amira, my store cards are SEVENTY FIVE PERCENT OFF for 24 hours only. Why? Because I passed test one for my MCSA (and eventually MCSE). I’ve been stressing about that first test. The rest will be better!!!

Love,

Kessie

KessKreations now resides on it’s own sim, Amira. On this sim also resides Marissa Racecourse’s taco taco taco, Iris Bourdeille’s !Quit, and Trash Vegas (A Marissa/Squiz/Kess multiple production soon to be announced). taco taco taco and !Quit are working to get their stores up but feel free to come visit and you can visit me in my workshop which is Otter Isle (look for the big white photo egg). I am friendly and everyone is welcome in my workshop. Beware though, my friend Ron likes to leave turds around my workshop- so tread carefully!

KessKreations at Amira

If you joined my subscribe-0-lovejuice you might have received a package of Affiliate Vendors. This is because my affiliates also share my group and needed those new vendors. If anyone rezzes the vendors and accepts debit permissions they can essentially shop from home and it will give you back 15 percent of your purchase. Once a month I do 50 percent merchant days, which the vendors deliver 50 percent of the purchase price back to the vendor owners.

It’s that time. From now until April 30th at 8pm SLT the affiliate vendors will deliver a 50 percent commission.

Any questions, just ask me!

<3, Kesseret

SECRET WORD ALERT!!!

If you tell Kitty the secret word (greek) you will get a free necklace to match the red stick earrings. Once again just say in open chat “greek” (no quotes).

Ladies new items:

My group got Cratus in Pink Pearls- group exclusive. Did I mention join the group?

RFL Items (Just to reiterate):

Men’s Items:

Join my group, please (plug plug). It’s Subscribe-o-matic! Doesn’t use your 25. DO IT. You get free stuff. I cannot reiterate free stuff. You also can go into the archives and get my catalogue vendors which give you a 15 percent discount and once a month a 50 percent discount.

Oh and although no one reads this, I’ve had some awesome customer comments recently that have just made my month. I also was recognized by some stranger. That was really weird for me because I am (painfully) socially awkward but it made me smile.Some press in my favorite blogs:

http://shoppingcartdisco.wordpress.com/
http://fashionlabyrinth.blogspot.com/
http://fashionascension.blogspot.com/ (she’s stalking me, but that’s ok, nothing says “I love you” like a restraining order! lol)
http://www.helixrehula.com/

Thanks so much for showing my jewelry on such pretty avatars and in such creative ways. I can barely keep up with this blog, I admire anyone who continues with one daily. The last time I kept a daily blog all I did was bitch about computers…

<3,

Kessie

I’m just going to make some statements to someone who found it necessary to come to my blog and make a comment as such:

1. Moby Smith | Jarjar@blink.boops | IP: 76.185.103.100

   I bet you wish you were hot like your avatar in RL but we all know you are a fatty fat fat fat.

   Mar 21, 12:55 AM — [ Edit | Delete | Unapprove | Approve | Spam ] — Retiring old stuffs

Yes, I put an IP address there. I’m so fucking sick of the IP address debate. Folks- you are not anonymous on the webz. Get the fuck over it and shut the fuck up about it. On an aside, this doesn’t seem to be in use as of writing this, so oh well.

Now, I find it funny that someone went to my blog (which is on it’s own) and wanted to make a statement like that. Who the fuck do I bother? Yeah, exactly. No one.  Thanks for your input Moby Fucktard. I hope that you enjoy your life, because having such a negative impact on others must make you a joy to be around.

I love how my avatar looks, she’s quite different I think, certainly no model that’s for sure. I also may not like what I look like right now, but I am totally having my period, therefore I am bloated and raggy.

So, I think that is all I need to say. Hopefully I will be back on fashionplanet soon.

So, my Crystal Shores location is going away for good! My new main store will be in (what I lovingly call) Hawaii… however the sim name is called ‘Hale Kuai’.

Crystal Shores is dismantled. All that is left is my old items at a 50-75 percent discount.  Most items are 50L, however wedding sets are 300L. Come get what you can before it goes for good (which will be friday)

My favorite sets that I will miss:

Reggie Sets
Sheba’s Eyes
(both of those are named after my late kitties)
Teri Sets
Caterina  Sets

I think Sheba, Teri, and Caterina are only 100L, what a steal! Reggie is 50L.

SLURL TO NEW STORE:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hale%20kuai/94/195/21 

What I find to be Serious Business (a.k.a. SRS BSNS)

Source:
http://www.gigstaggart.com/blog/?p=26

“When Second Life was a closed source application, the programmers often relied on the client to enforce certain constraints and security checks. This was always a risky security policy, as even a closed source client can be modified. Now that Second Life is open source, this design is severely outdated.

Most everyone is familiar with megaprims, that is, prims larger than the normal 10 meter limit. While these are useful, they are a result of the client enforcing a 10 meter limitation on prim size, while the server did not enforce a limitation. This was only one early hint that this security model was becoming obsolete and long overdue for an overhaul.

More recently, due to the lack of server side enforcement, there have been exploits that allowed someone to read the source code to any LSL script, to read a notecard they did not have permission to read otherwise, and very recently fixed, an exploit that allowed anyone to take free copies any item straight from the contents of a vendor. This recent exploit even allowed someone duplicate as many copies of a no-copy item as they want.

These exploits did not require any particular special knowledge, they only required bypassing basic security functions on the client. Even a beginner programmer can change a function named “is_this_allowed” to always return “true”. Linden Lab developers are fully aware that client-side restrictions are not effective security. However, there does not seem to be a large drive to eliminate the client side checks, instead leaving them redundant with server side checks. This is a risky strategy.

Quality Assurance (QA) testing at Linden Lab, for the most part, relies on testing the server using the official client. Other than LibSL and a few side projects, most open source developers and users are using the official client or some variant of it too. This creates a situation where a missing server-side check is difficult to detect. These missing security checks can go unnoticed for months or years, because there is a redundant client-side check that is covering it up.

This might seem like a good thing, since the majority of people won’t be able to exploit the flaw. In reality, it’s a very bad situation, because the few people that do discover the flaw may or may not be honest enough to report it. A flaw could be exploited over and over for years by an unscrupulous party that discovered it. This is often called the “window of exposure” in security circles. A goal of software security is to reduce the duration of this exposure.

The window of exposure starts when the flaw is introduced in the software. Even though no one can exploit it yet, the flaw is there. Things escalate as soon as only one person discovers the flaw and how to exploit it. The duration of time between the first discovery of the flaw and the final fix deployment is a critical segment of exposure. The current situation with the client is making that segment of the window potentially very long. In other words, the “good guys” are less likely to find the exploit before the “bad guys” right now.

I urge Linden Lab to remove all client-side security enforcement. Always let the client attempt to do things that it knows are forbidden. The server can return an appropriate error code for the client to display. This is the only reasonable strategy to allow QA and user testing to be effective, and prevent these serious exploits from lingering in the server code for months or years.”

So here’s my limited edition St. Patrick’s Day release called McIrish Style.

As you can see I am (once again) changing my vendor templates. Indecisive - thy name is Kesseret. 

If you would like to see McIrish Style in action:

I’d like to say that “I luv dis dress”.  Also, I’d like to say that I’m a die-hard RaC fan. Tess never leaves my body, but I decided to try a Fleur skin and well I do know they are being blogged about all over the joint so I will just say this: I’m wearing it. Very rarely do I change from Tess. Big compliment for Fleur from me. One more thing- this skin has great nostrils. I think so at least. That’s my pet peeve. Not the jay-vay, not the sisters, but the nostrils… what can I say? I’m weird.

And to top off this lovely post, KessKreations has a St. Patty’s surprise dollarbie and 2 new dollarbies that are samples of my attention to detail and my gem/metal changing script.

I am intending to post more about items I see about the grid that fascinate me. Lucky for you all I have a committment problem and it may not last long. I can try though.

<3,
Kesseret

On Thursday, March 20, 2008, Marissa Racecourse will be presenting a paper at the 2008 National Popular Culture & American Culture Associations Conference This event will be at the San Francisco Marriott (55 Fourth Street). Why do I mention this? Because the title of her presentation is “You Mean You Chose To Be Fat?: Body Image in a Virtual World”.

Essentially she had some people in Second Life run around as fatvatars. Here’s a picture from my time as a fatvatar (click to enlarge):

I had to wear a fatvatar for a week (I think I did an extra week for Marissa) and go do various things and record my observations. I made friends and also got some surprisingly strange comments. It always shocks me when someone calls another person a ‘fat ass’ in Second Life. To me, the diversity that is here is what makes this place so awesome! My avatar is not as fat as my fatvatar but my normal avatar is 5 feet tall and probably would be a size 12/14 if SL had sizes and I have gotten strangers to call me ‘fat ass’ or ‘ageplayer’.

Obviously body image is pretty important to some people - even in a virtual world! I have pride in my short/fatty av and I think she’s positively gorgeous. Of course, she’s modeled after my real life self- although I don’t think I’ve ever said that my real self is ever ‘positively gorgeous’ (ok maybe I did before prom or sometime in my youth). On a strange train of thought- I suppose Kesseret has made me accept Christine a bit more as they are very similar physically and one in the same mentally. Maybe others who did this came to that conclusion as well? I guess I’ll have to wait on Marissa for that. (HURRY UP MAR!!!!<3)

I know Marissa will be posting her paper on her website (marissaracecourse.com) as she has other papers there too. I hope if anyone is interested and they are in the SF area to go see the presentation.

If anyone has anything to say about body image in Second Life or anything else- feel free to leave a comment.

New to KessKreations is:

and
Full gem/metal changing to match all your outfits! You can click those for better viewing pleasure OR visit my store and get a free demo!!!

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Crystal%20Shores/219/33/22 

And: Opinions on store rebranding? Say, if I decided to rebrand KessKreations to something else. Do people not like that? Does that breed untrustworthiness of the seller/store? Thoughts, etc?
Also, I am so honored to have so many people thanking me for the items I have out for the Valentine’s/Anti-Valentine Hunt that is currently going on. Really I should be thanking you all. You took the time to say something and hop through my heart shaped store to find my goodies! I hope that I see you again in my store or around Second Life.