I’ve been spacing out the news cause I thought there was no point in filling this blog with “a new update” every day on what is essentially sorts of “reeditions”.

So here is some more: The lycra catsuits and the kriss kross catsuit, including new gorgeous pictures 🙂

Because i truly believe that what we are doing on the Internet is no one’s business, whether we have something to hide or not, i support the use of SSL on as many websites as possible, so it’s only logical that i try to have a working ssl version of my blog.

So what is this SSL thing about?

For the non geeks amongst us, when you or i browse websites, every information i send and receive from said website travel in “plain text” format, which means that anyone that is relaying this piece of information from me to it’s destination, and vice verse can very easily see what websites i am looking at or what keywords i entered on google.

When you use an SSL website (if the URL starts with “https://” instead of “http://” the information are encrypted both ways between you and the website you are visiting.

That means that, yes your ISP may know that you are connecting to this, or that computer, they know you are probably visiting a website, but they cannot see what you are doing.

This is used by many online shops and online banking systems, usually everything involving sums of money is secured through SSL.

Why does it matter?

Because it shouldn’t be limited to this! Many governments are starting to complain about the rise in encrypted communications.

Saudi Arabia was about to ban Blackberry cellphones because they couldn’t easily access the encrypted information between Blackberry cellphones and RIM’s servers.

Google started a new beta service where you can connect to them and perform searches in https (  ), it doesn’t offer yet all the the common functions like image search but it’s already a nice step forward.

https://encrypted.google.com

The bottom line is that as surveillance systems become faster and more efficient, it is vital in order to keep our freedom that we use the tools that are available today to protect ourselves. If SSL browsing (and encrypted communications in general) becomes more widespread it will make general surveillance nearly impossible.

Again, same as the two previous news, you can get all layers on the buckled latex corset.

Enjoy while i keep working 🙂

Updated pictures and availability on all layers for the Delilah Corset, also now listed properly on XstreetSL, as for the base catsuit, the update is free and you jsut have to ask for it.

Okay I spent the better part of the day refreshing stuffs about the basic latex catsuit, it’s now going SL wide from:

nomod/nocopy/transfer

to

mod/copy/notransfer

There is a reason for this change, now the basic catsuit is provided with every layers included.

That’s right, gloves shirt pants undershirt underpants, etc… even the new “tatoo” layer!

It is also now on xstreet/marketplace and it includes the transparent ones which initially where only available directly at the dead realm shop.

Of course, for those who already have these catsuits you don’t HAVE to re buy them to get the new layers (you can if you want, wupport is always apreciated) simply send me back your catsuit, and write me a nice little notecard.

Or simply catch me when i’m online and i will do the exchange immediately, or well.. nearly immediately.

I also redid the arts for the vendors and XStreet , I didn’t remember that the old ones where so unappealing…

This is muuch better.

Sneak peek at my eventual new shop design for dead realm, a bit more conservative, yes but the old one was getting clumsy and crowded.

After kicking, screaming and clawing all the way to it, i finally revamped my avatar body and got a new skin, here is the result of the new Kyrah Abattoir “Revision 2010”

This is a thing that really agravate me, the proliferation of “i like it” buttons and comment windows that ask me to log on facebook, or simply websites that use your facebook session to log you in.

So here is a cure, for those who use any ad blocker compatible with AdblockPlus rules (AdThwart on chrome) simply add the following custom rules:

||*.facebook.*^$domain=~facebook.com|~127.0.0.1
||facebook.com/*$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net
||facebook.net/*$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbc
||fbcdn.com/*$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.netdn.net
||fbcdn.net/*$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net

Those rules will tell your navigator to block anything coming from facebook’s hosts, unless you are actually visiting facebook.

As usual, filling out those forms and stuffs is a pain in the ass, especially if you want to put proper translations for your products, I can only write properly in french and english, so i filled out German Japanese and Portuguese using google translation… So don’t blame me for the crappy translations 🙂

My opinion of the thing? I like the layout, I like the “related products” footer that’s really nice when you have objects that are part of a while serie or are compatible with eachothers, but i wish it was more convenient , like you could add objects to a “group” and all the members of this group are automatically cycled in the related products. As it stands right now you can only add 8 products (all are visible on the footer) and you have to do it for each and every products.

Right now I won’t add all my colored products because they have a “coming soon” feature that will handle multiple variations of a same item as one, and I do not want to make any extra work on this one.

I’m thinking about dropping the other marketplaces, excepted for freebies, because that’s basically the only thing i ever “Sell” on them. SOmehow peoples browse Apez.biz or Meta-life, but they never have money to spend.

On this point i guess LindenLabs kinda got what they wanted, with their ability to integrate their online shopping experience directly into SecondLife, they pretty much push any competitor out.

Linden Labs… has never anybody taught you that in an economic system, self imposed monopolies tend to be kind of BAD?

Oh well, when you are judge and party things tend to be a bit skewed in your own favor i suppose.

Soo, basically the experience i had with the other merchand sites wasn’t really a success, updating 4 sites at the same time is really daunting , and it appears the only things I sell there are the few freebies I offer.

So i’m getting ready for the painful task of getting back all my stuffs on xstreet, and considering it’s becoming the de facto place for shopping in sl (not quite yet beating inworld sales but well…) i’m going to make a real effort this time.

Well aparently it’s a good thing that i’m kind of a slow person, LL decided they would scrape Xstreet for a new system.