Sunday, 12th June, 2005

Hello Angels

Hi! I'm Siobhan Curran. You might remember me from such transvestite websites as http://www.siobhansplace.co.uk and http://www.wearetheprettyones.com/trannisaurus. I dunno who nominated me for the award, but there you go. Time to reignite the obsessive, popularity-based self-worth subroutines that last raised their paranoid heads when I was up for a Bloggie.

Weblogs are hard to just jump straight into, so here's some previous posts that might be of interest:

• 01.01.2002 :: obligatory this is my bio page that I'm slightly ashamed of the language in.

• 21.01.2005 :: in which Siobhan makes a tit out of herself in front of Eddie Izzard

• 28.10.2004 :: a little story about John Peel

• 17.02.2005 :: having a little rant about the Why Men Wear Frocks documentary

• 13.07.2004 :: in which I go off on one about 'passing'

• 10.06.2005 :: a more recent debate about that little argument over My Husband Betty

• 28.02.2005 :: one of the more insightful posts, mostly about me, and why I think I'm a transvestite

• 26.02.2005 :: the one and only day that Tom Coates leaves a comment

Or you could have a gander through my Archives, or my Tags, or, if you just want to see pictures, then my Other Site has one or two, or you could have a flick through my Flickr Photostream

Vital Statistics

Hey guys! It's the 12th of the month and we all know what that means don't we? Yes! It's time for a monthly round-up of bizarre Google search queries that have led people unexpectedly into the world of a slitghly drunk trannie...

(look, I just made that up OK? I've finally got round to reinstalling my log-analysis software, and, well, some people are weird...)

1. sarah kennedy radio shit crap pointless dull
   Yeah, I know she is — but I'd rather have her than shouty John Humphrys

2. plastic runners for bundling steel sheets
   And just when did I talk about that?

3. three trannies
   Not one, not two, but three trannies! Moon on a stick, that's what you people want...

4. transvestite art
   *aw* Thankyou

5. fucking machines
   Now, is that "fucking machines" as in "stupid bastard machines that don't work", or "machines that fuck"?

6. cute sexy trannie beauty
   I'm flattered

7. dental brace pictures
   That's one of the strangest fetishes I've ever heard of. Go get help.

8. 2005 guestbook of third roped in united kingdom
   Kinda wonder exactly what this person was looking for really. I mean, that doesn't even remotely make sense

9. woman dressed as a man
   No, I think you've got that the wrong way round...

10. crossdressing
    Ha! I rule!

Aye, but she's flounced off to Barcelona for the week, so we can talk about her behind her back

Ack, c'mon Rachel If you were in Barcelona would you be wasting time online? The calendar, incidently, I thought cluttered up the place a bit — so I shifted it to a page of its own

Um, see up ther, on the left hand side? "All the archives. By date :: in gloriously pretty pink calendars"

Crap — have I screwed up the comments...?

Ack. Bear with me

Think that's it

Yes? No?

Big Dresses

OK, enough with the fiddling with the code. I shouldn't mess about with things that are live, I know — it's just that I get on a little bit of a roll and get obsessed. It's usually at that point that I completely cock things up, and once that happens, I've got to get it right.

Know what I mean?

Anyway, as I said, enough already. I've mucked aroound with the comments so that you can either use them the way that they were (with Gravatars), or if you have a Blogger weblog you can use your userid (not your log-in name, the userid is the long number at the end of your profile web address), and if you have a Flickr account, then you can use your screen name.

If you use either of those last two then you don't need to put names and homepages in — Erin will try and work it out

Oh, and I started using cookies to store all that stuff, so you don't have to type it in each time. If you want Erin to forget who you are, then click on the forget link.

Am I good to you people or what?

Anyway, thought you might like a bit of an update on the old Sparkle fashion show progress thingumy...

Natalie spoke to my two little designers the other week, and apparently they're creating something "that's feminine (let's not start all that again eh?) on the outside, but has masculine undertones"

Should be interesting I'm going over to see them tomorrow morning, and I promise I'll take pictures if I can.

See? It's does work...

Well, it works of sorts. I've only written it to scrape a homepage if you have one of those "My Web Page" links on your profile — what I'll have to do is come up with a regex that finds the blogs buried in the profile info to

The reason the Flickr one didn't work Jane, is that for some reason, FLickr seems to think that your screen name is "18185423@N00". Weird...

Here, try it: http://www.flickr.com/people/janegoth/ vs http://www.flickr.com/people/18185423@N00/

I've applied for a Flickr API key so that I can start really messing around with things, but in the meantime, I need to put a "Beta" sign next to my comment form

"Chix0r" darling — I'm a Chix0r

Selina, I refer you to Wikipedia