Hello 
I'm Siobhan Curran/Kisa Naumova, and this is my weblog. I tend to write about stuff like crossdressing, Macs, code, cats, wine and Second Life, but in general it's just an ongoing conversation about all sorts of stuff. If you'd like to know a little bit more about what this all is, I recommend starting on this page which has a little bit of info on who I am, and what I'm trying to do — or you could dive into my five years worth of archives if you like.
Otherwise, feel free to close this box and explore...
What is Bad Wold?
Just some observations on the ever-increasing anticipation over next Saturday's Doctor Who series finale. Because I'm a bit sad that way. I don't think any of this is Spoiler-material BTW — it's just stuff that's already online legit.
Hidden Text
If you go to the disclaimer page on the BBC's badwolf.org.uk site, and select all of the text, a hidden message shows up:
Rose — Are you there? Are you getting this? You've got the point, haven't you? Rose...?
Look at the source-code of that page incidently, in particular the description meta-tag. I know the D and F keys are close together, but isn't there a proof-reader somewhere in White City? Or maybe we've been looking in the wrong place all the time? Maybe we should have been looking for an evil unforested rolling plain 
Dalek Technology
OK, we've seen the trailer at the end of Bad Wolf, and we've seen the Daleks in their hoardes flying around, swivelling their turrets like there's no tomorrow yeah?
Now, those of us who have too much time on their hands and have played The Last Dalek game will know that that particular Dalek gained the ability to fly and do the Twist through gathering stuff from Van Statten's base.
I might be wrong on this, but let's just assume that I'm right... 
That means that all of those Daleks we've seen, are descendants of it. Which suggests to me that Davros has nothing much to do with this new batch of the evil, stinking things.
Speaking of Trailers
The BBC are releasing a new teaser trailer each day this week at 12pm. Just thought you'd like to know.
The Angels Is Not Your Blog
Apologies if (a) I'm speaking out of turn here, (b) I come across as a bit grouchy/snobby, (c) this is totally outside of a lot of people's frame of reference...
...but is anyone else getting a little bit tired of the day to day life of someone being crow-barred into their email inbox?
Selina Morse
I do remember that one — and I remember the onslaught of complaints that appeared the next week of Points of View 
And maybe I'm reading too much into the accuracy of the Dalek game — but it seemed pretty clear from the episode that the Daleks we're dealling with now are the new 'Bling' Daleks, and not the old grey/blue ones.
Isn't it?
I'm really disappointed with the new teaser clips, they are pretty poor, i know they want peole to wait until next week; http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/avoid.shtml , but those clips are just awful! I mean, come on! They know that releasing that story and then teaser clips is just one way of getting the ratings up for saturday and fans will ignore the warnings anyway. I'm really looking forward to saturday's episode (which i'll be watching on monday (i'm going to my homophobic, conservative friends house on saturday. Everyone has one, i'm not proud) woohoo!) but the clips are pooh!!
Becky
I think that whole stay away from the internet thing is just another hype-inducing technique Personally though, I love it. Tell you what though, the episode had better be as good as I'm hoping...
In the meantime, I've done a couple of higher-res versions of that little remix of mine. It's on http://siobhan.eyefood.co.uk — don't all look at once, you'll break my server.
Actually, I'd appreciate some feedback as to whether the formats I'm using work for everyone. I spend a lot of time making sure I've got every single codec I can get my hands on, so I'm never sure whether people can actually see the things I go on about.
c'mon. it's just viral marketing. enjoy it people!
"Avoid the Internet" = "Abuse your Internet habit even more than you do normally".
I am.
Are you?
Mmmmmm......So if these 'new' daleks are descendants of the 'old' last dalek, it surely follows that these new meanies are descendants of Rose, as it was her DNA that woke the last dalek!!!
That should make for a complicated last episode
Wow — I didn't realise anyone else would be up this hour Steph, thanks for the link to the Dalek Builders — nice find
RE: People's life stories flooding into the Angels site.
I'm with you Ms. Curran. Whilst it's all very important to the individual concerned and no doubt a great help putting it all down in script, I honestly don't give a shit. Whether the HR guy is cool about someone transitioning or whether the green grocer is calling me Sally as opposed to Daffydd. My own life is exciting/ dull enough without being subjected to the minutae of someone's transition, however successful it appears to be going.
What's even more galling is the fact that the serial offender appears to have their own online diaries anyway, so this is just duplication and a little self-promotion.
What really is quite peculiar is that a lot of TS folks I know really would prefer the stealth approach anyway and just blend into the background and get on with their lives quietly. Most certainly not the quasi-Samuel Pepys approach.
(and yes, i can just delete the emails, but as a moderator of the Angels, I have to make sure there isn't anything inflammatory now and then).
a) Who the hell knew that Aunty Beeb was this good at viral marketing?
b) When my life-story finally gets interesting I promise I will start my own blog.
c) All right, I admit that I am already "squee"-ing like mad about the last episode!
PS. I made the last comment. I think I confused your comments thingy, Siobhan. Sorry.
Mel
Kind of with Kat here. I dont bother to read it in depth but as it isn't offensive I havent really got a legitimate reason for not letting it go to the list (apart from it being spammed to 5 different mailing lists each time)
And on Dr Who — loving the new speculation, and the little teaser clips are kinda fun.. Got friends coming over Saturday.. I hope they dont arrive right in the middle of Dr Who...
bugger. i am so missing out on all this dr who stuff... i've not seen it since i went on hols — will need to get the dvds i think.
C'lam, or try Bit Torrent?
(I didn't say that. Honest. I would advocate stealing things...)
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Mel — I think I've fixed it a little. Once again, I'm not sure why, but flickr wasn't accepting your regular screen-name. And when I tried an idea to resort to a different RegEx, I forgot that what the server pulls from flickr.com is different to what I see — because I'm logged in and she isn't.
What I've done is set it to try and find your "Real Name". If that doesn't work, then it tries to pull out your on-screen screen name — and if that doesn't work, then it defaults to the name you type in.
It's all a little Beta at the moment, but it seems to have more joy with the ########@N00 userid rather than the screen name.
Dunno why
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Kat, Joanna, I know — I wasn't complaining, just moaning. I wouldn't think yous need to do anything about it (I've set up a mail-rule to mark them as read), I just thought I'd let some of my grumpiness vent itself
Just checking if the UKAngels profile thingy works
I hope Jo won't mind...
Dont mind at all babes.... as long as you have some resizing code for the buggers who still dont realise what 120x120 pixels actually means.
Hi Siobhan,
http://siobhan.eyefood.co.uk seemed to hang up my Firefox 1.0.4 unless it was just taking to long at my 2MB/Sec connection.
As for the Daleks, surely it's Davros — after all, the contestants getting zapped by Ann Droid was very predictable as was the disintegration of BB evictees, even if there was a twist in this theme. It seems to me that the last episode, and BB itself of course, borrowed heavily from Nigel Kneale's historic "The Year of the Sex Olympics" (1968): the most prophetic SF oneoff ever shown on TV.
Susan 2
I think it's more likely that my uplink is just too slow Susan 
True, the Sex Olympics proves that reality TV isn't a recent invention ... but I'm still thinking it's not Davros now. Davros is too easy.
And he's a bit camp.
Actually, someone refresh my memory — what was the show (on TV or Radio) that had the gay Daleks in it? Was it Dead Ringers?
It was Victor Lewis-Smith's "TV Offal"; here's a link- http://www.htw.ndirect.co.uk/tvoffal.html
Grrr... who is this Solace, and why is she me? Must take a look in Flickr...
Mel
I have no idea. Weird innit? Good job I was here though 
And now I look a bit of a pranny, 'cos Erin's picked up my name; please ignore my meta-post...
Mel
Nope — that was me. Erin's the pranny. (Although I should be more careful saying things like that. Last time I said anything along those lines, she burnt her own hard disk in protest )
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Wait a minute, I worked out what was going wrong — I didn't urlencode() the bloody form data — so anything after the space in your name was getting ignored by Flickr 
Erm, I'm almost scared to ask this as certain people may assume I'm affecting "dippiness", but what number on what URL on the angels site are you takling about? I've looked on the website and in the members gallery there is simply a link to my profile. The only number involved seems to be based on my place alphabetically (which clearly changes as more members are taken on).
And the Bad wolf? I await the return of the Black Guardian.
Selina Morse
Well, you know on the Gallery page? (http://www.theangels.co.uk/gallery.asp) Go to your picture and click on it — the number is the last few digits in the address bar — just after the "?userid="
Personally, I want to see The Watcher again
Ah — I briefly saw it — but I'm not clear how you do it. Hovering the mouse over the picture yields:
http://www.theangels.co.uk/gallery.asp?offset=1160#
Clicking on it briefly gives the lookup in the bar at the top before that is quickly overwritten by "The UK Angels — Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by ..." And Firefox doesn't even give you the brief lookup. WHat am I missing here?
Oh, and the bad wolf could be K9. But that would be the worst bad wolf there is.
Selina
I emailed you the number hon
Thanks toots. What I don't understand is why I couldn't see that anywhere other than the brief flicker I described above. How did you find it?
Ok, if the Daleks are descendants of the 'last' Dalek or Rose or a combination of both, then there's only two people who can sort these new Daleks out....And that's Rose's parents, so come on Jackie lets be 'avin you ("Now what's all this mess?...You can all get back to rooms right now!!!"). Of course Rose's dad is dead so he can't help...
Or is he??? Maybe he's the 'Bad Wolf'...
And why hasn't anyone mentioned the Master yet???
Boy, I wish I had a life!!!
Ok...back to my model Dalek
xxxx
w00t! Third season and second christmas special confirmed by Aunty Beeb! /me bounces off wallls!!!
(and let's see of this works...)
w00t! again! Phear Si08han's mad coding skillz...
To get your angels number — click on your picture in the gallery to get your profile to pop up.
Right click on a blank bit of the page of the profile and choose properties. From the box that pops up look in the address of the page; you will see that the last few digits is your Angel number.
Joanna
I refer my learned colleague to the case of McCoy vs. The Daleks often referred to as "Remembrance of the Daleks" from 5th to 26th October 1988 which featured the first flying Dalek. Clearly an independantly thinking Dalek group had worked out that aviation was a useful technique when faced with Earthling's penchant for stairs.