Marketing Morons

Would you have any sort of confidence in staff who were intended to act as prime marketing interfaces with your customers who were not only semi-literate, but too ignorant, lazy or incompetent to use a spell-checker?

Pep (thinks Xiola could always get a job with this lot) 

PS Seems like Xiola is a stoner.

The CACnoscenti: Dilettantes Who Dine

Caitlin Tobias is outstripping everyone (including Torley Linden) as *the* pictorial documentor of the finer sights of Second Life, having used her professional expertise to seize the opportunities offered by the magnificently flawed Facebookalike feeds in SL. Here, for your delectation, and to rouse your envy, if not your jealousy, is a seasonal celebration:

It looks so civilised it's hard to believe that there are at that table:

• two banned so-called forum flamers who have the audacity to use polysyllables in posts
• a social leper - as denounced by the cult's Mad leader - with a mind of her own
• and a social media professional who persists in denying that she is one of Pep's alts' alts!

Pep (wishes everyone a Merry Christmas)

PS The house and dining environment are the astonishing products of Pamela Galli's La Galleria.

Flooding in!

I am being inundated with messages from SL forum posters who have been warned for violating non-existent guidelines and banned for protesting that they have been framed. Trumped up charges seem to be the order of the day against anyone who dares suggest that SL is not a place of unicorns and rainbows during this week of sycophantic mindless posts being stickied in what should be the residents' discussion forum - especially since the only time a Linden representative turns up there they avoid addressing any of the serious issues. Here are a couple of posts which incurred the wrath of Viale and the Mods:

My Style - But Not Me.

There is a guy inhabiting the lower reaches of the official SL Forums called BothamFidor (yeah, I got it) who has sent me a copy of his correspondence with the mods. It's interesting. Here is the post that got whacked:

I presume that it must have pressed one of their buttons marked "extremely sensitive" as removing it gives it a lot more credence than ignoring what is a pretty obvious potential loophole (or rather, dirty great gaping cracks between the systems binding the various LL 'net properties) for exploitation.

Pep (thinks they should be thanking Fidor, not warning him off)

PS The warning was for flaming - in a thread entitled "Security Flaw in The Second Life Web Site" which appeared otherwise uncensored.  So who in the forums was going to feel provoked by the extremely ontopic post? Maybe the mods were demoted from design and coding to their current status because the login system is so rubbish?

Xoxalee Song For The Dead

How you will be missed, my friend,

so sadly gone, ha ha ha.

Your life has come to its end.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

The death caught you with a gaff

and trapped your soul, ha ha ha.

Now all we can do is laugh:

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Dadatic The Elder

Posted in memory of the departed Gypsy . . .

Pep ( . . . whose brain shuffled off this mortal coil long before his body)

A star is born!

And herrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre's Caity . . .



Pep (is pleased he can post something good for a change!)

How Wrong Can You Get Something?

DQ (Deek, as she likes to be known by her friends, after Rib Di Castella's notorious incident) Darwin, after a long day in the wool mines in the Great Barrier Reef, was supporting her morally misguided friend Lillie in her breakfast feed (presumably pleased that Gypsy had, the previous day, publicly made an even bigger asshole of himself than Deek herself had in Linden Lab's feed) attributed this weakness to pserendipity.daniels (that's her private snookums name for him)

Pep (thought everyone would have a good laugh at her desperation and ignorance)