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...
An experiment
Look, it's not like I don't check my stats or anything. I know that about two thousand people come this way every day. I'm just curious that's all. Leave a comment — even if it's just an anonymous one — first name, and where you found this. I'd like to know. And I promise I won't try and traceroute you...
Was looking for Angels Uk — typed Angles Uk by mistake in google — found Becky's site — enjoyed her blog so went back — saw link to yours — came here. Had seen your stuff on Flickr so kind of new who you were. Enjoyed your blog so came back.
Kate Weston
I think I found you thanks to some idle Googling, but I cannot really remember. 
However, I have a feeling I found the site thanks to searching for some Mac-related issue, not trannie-related issues! Happy either way! 
Emily Söderberg
I found your site while Googling for some TG support groups/chats. Pleased I did because Ive since joined UKAngels chat and made some really nice contacts. Ive got more confidence with this online stuff since, and dont feel as alone just knowing Ive got a circle of online contacts now.
Oh and I found this today while I was Googling (again) and immediatelly thought of you Siobhan (cant think why) 
Quote from Eddy Izzard......
'I'm an action transvestite really, so it's running, jumping, climbing trees... putting on make-up when you're up there!'
Found your site by Googling for php Blogs, then got reading and found it was not all geek info, here was someone with a differant life to mine and anyone elses that I had come across.
Davew
saw you mentioned in the guardian blog after grayson perry won that award.
kept coming back because you usually have something interesting to say or see.
I first came here following links from the Bloggie awards. I keep coming back, tragically, because of the Lancaster thing. My formative years (birth to mid teens) were spent there and it somehow still feels like home despite the fact that no one I know lives there anymore.
The thing that really did it for me was your photo of the step in the wall of the post office. I had completely forgotten that existed, yet as soon as you posted the photo, I knew exactly what I was looking at (and was overwhelmed by the memories it evoked).
Stuff Proust and his fairy cakes. A little brass step is all I need.
And don't even get me started on Williamson Park........
Mark
Was rummaging down the back of the sofa, when I found this blog...
I keep coming back because you keep phoning me and asking me if you've seen what you've written today.
Kath
lolol Katie
Looking at the websites listed on UK Angels for TG information and hints, your site made me laugh, it's interesting and I liked the photos.
It's so long ago, I've forgotten, but probably UK Angels Yahoo group, Becky's site or serendipity.
Been following your site and blog for so long I've forgotten how I found you originally. I suspect that I found you through either Joanna's or Becky's sites which I also visit daily. I love your editorials and always look forward to seeing what you'll come up with next. Thanks!
I get to see more of you here than I do in the 'real' world — anyway we're just words!
JoH
Can't remember how I found it...I just read it
Found you on Flickr, but when you are scrutinizing your logs you will see that I actually linked here from Joanna's blog. All this violent talk of traceroutes... next you'll be doing port scans... 
Hiya, Mel here. I think I must have followed the link here from Miss K's site- don't really remember now...
Hi Siobhan,
I think I first found your blog on a search for trannie-related sites.
The messages I left here are the first time I've talked about this stuff freely.
Susan 2
Thanks guys It's quite interesting to see where people have come from — especially non-trannie visitors. What would also be interesting, prehaps, is to see who's been with me the longest. I know Davew has been reading for at least a year...
Walking With Purpose
On the whole, I'm not a big fan of going for walks — not on my own at least. I'm not one of those people who goes for long rambles to clear their head or to relax (I use booze for that), but I do like going for walks when I've got a purpose in mind. It doesn't really matter what that purpose is — going to get something, or just rambling around with Kathie — what's important for me is not get bored with just myself for company.
Sometimes, I think to myself that it would be nice to just go for a walk, and maybe think about things — but that's what I use this for, and nine times out of ten, by the time I get back, I've forgotten everything I've thought of and I'm stumped for something to write about.
The thing is though, it was such a lovely evening, I felt that I just had to go out and do something in the sunshine — so I grabbed my camera and set off.
Just to divert for a second and go on a pro-Flickr ramble, there are many things I like about Flickr — not least the way it handily resizes photos for you so you can use them on your blog easily, and even lets you email them in, so photoblogging is a snap — but one of the things I most like, is the sense of audience.
This is going to sound awfully egotistical/self-centred/theatrical of me, but the idea of "audience" is really important to me. Just after I finished my degree, I found it really difficult to keep motivated to make Stuff™ — mainly because I didn't have a purpose to make things. When I was an undergraduate, every time I did something, there were people around to look at it, and give opinions. But after, there wasn't — not without me putting a lot of effort in (something I'm not good at).
But with Flickr, it feels like there are people wanting to see your photographs. It feels like you're contributing to some kind of group-work. It doesn't feel like you're on your own.
Anyway, what I've found is that if I go out, camera in hand, with the specific intent to take some photographs to shove on Flickr, it's all the motivation I need.
Especially if I think of an interesting photographic-series to take as a little project.
I loved Becky's Sudoku thingy. It's wonderfully elegant, innovative, and downright fab — but I never liked the outcomes when I used my photostream. Sometimes I have quite similar shots in my photostream — and it looked confusing when they were used on the grid. So, I thought I'd go out and take a series of pictures, specifically for the purpose...
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And here's a link to Becky's Flickr-Suduko Wotsit
Of course, I've now just found out that there's an entire Flickr Group devoted to taking pictures of numbers, so I'm off to share mine...
...instant audience See? What did I tell yous?
(PS. Kudos to the first person that can spot why I've put the numbers in the positions that I did )
15?
Mark
Flickr is great and there is a real sense of community there, you're right about the people wanting to see your photos thing.
erm....I can't remember where i found a link to here, it may of been a google search i think....
Kudos Mark Although the words I was looking for were "magic square"
This is an interesting flickr group... In Numerical order
Oooh — I like
12.34pm
Just while we're on the subject of numbers, I thought I'd mention this. I presume that this entire phenomenon is down to me noticing something that is entirely coincidental — that thing where you think to yourself "I haven't ever seen XYZ" and then you see nothing but XYZ for ever after ... but I keep seeing the time "12.34pm"
It taunts me — day, day out. Every time I look at a clock to see what time it is (yeah, why else would I?) it's 12.34pm.
That's a lie, obviously. It's just that I notice that it's 12.34pm — and something inside me triggers a "OMG" reaction.
What I'm hoping here, is that I can pass this onto someone else. And maybe stop being obsessed by 12.34pm 
9.54 here...
How many times have you looked at the clock and its not 12.34? its just when it is you get teh omg reaction.
Its like thinking of your friend, and then they ring and its like OMG I was just thinking of you.. what a coincidence... spooky. You forget all the times you thought of them, and they didnt ring. The brain dismisses them. We seem to always be on the lookout for coincidences and patterns....
sorry... that will teach me to half read your post....
Exactly. Howvever ... I'm tempted to either start a "12.34pm" Flickr Group, or make a set of photographs I've taken of clocks that say "12.34pm"
Which, at the moment, would be none. But it's a good excuse to always have my camera with me
Spikes
Again, continuing the numbers theme, I thought I'd share a graph.
Spikes in webstats are odd things aren't they? They come out of the blue, you get all excited for a few days, then realise that they don't really do that much for your general karma. It dawned on me a while back that as much fun as spikes are, they're nothing in comparison to friends that come and see you every day.
12.34 pm?? your'e unconsciously waiting for lunchtime, thats what it is, anything like me you probably havent eaten all day. as for the numbers --well the even numbers are all in the corners with an odd number sequence in the middle, why that is I have absolutely NO idea, definitely the sign of an organised brain
"12:34pm" — has your clock stopped?
I've been reading since February I think, spikes are nice but you right regular readers are much nicer. The numbers the first thing I thought of was IP address. 12.34 isn't that a bit Bad Wolf? It's almost 12:34 but it's am does that count?
An anonymous coward
Not an anonymous coward just a lazy one — Jane
for me it's 2:22. it's haunted me for a long time. I thought it went away for a while, but it only grew to include 222. Then I noticed the coincidence of good things happening along with it, so now it's a lucky number for me.
Hi Siobhan, I followed a link origionally from Becky's web and found that looking for transvestites in kingston; she had written a piece about reflex in Kingston. I like to pop in to you to see what a decent Life a Tv can live, I dont know about your private life but it encourages me to know you can have such a pretty existance alongside lifting boulders and earning a living without being an escort.
Please could you answer the question so many closet tvs have, how can we be 'tracerouted' or are there any other methods we closeted ones could be outed by malicious types? or even just teenage hackers making fun.
Love Jill
XXX
An anonymous coward
I think I found you through Tom Coates.
Been reading your blog for a while now, even left a comment or two occasionally. But I think it was a link from either Stephanie or Becky's website that put me on to you. I love the T-geek combination.......
12:34pm ....... around about the time I think, "wow that was good, wish I hadn't ordered the extra chillies........."
Wow, that number set is awesome. I love the number 4!
Gonna add those as a preset to the Sudoku. Thanks.
On the subject of magic squares, take a close look at this photo of a door of the Sagrada Familia. That square crops up more than once in the design, but no one seems to know the significance.
Sorry for not commenting sooner, but I had a late night last night, didn't even get up until 12:34.
Sometimes I have quite similar shots in my photostream — and it looked confusing when they were used on the grid.
Good point. When I was using the XML feeds I was limited to the latest 10 pictures from any stream, but I just realised the API can return 100s of hits for any one search.
So now Flickr Sudoku finds 9 images at random from the first 250 pictures in any stream.
Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction with the API stuff.
take a close look at this photo of a door of the Sagrada Familia.
I found a closer-up picture of it on svet's photostream
And some links...
Each row and column add up to 33, the supposed age of Christ at his death. In fact there are supposed to be exactly 33 differnt four number groupings that add up to 33
http://www.pballew.net/magsquar.html
http://www.markfarrar.co.uk/gzimmerman01.htm
http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~jagersaa/Pi/
That should have read "no one in my ten-second research seemed to know the significance".
Good work.
Bizarre — I was there the other day and wondering what on earth the numbers meant — seemed all very Dan Brown to us — you are as informative of random stuff as ever — thanks
JoH
LOL — yeah I was reading the DaVinci Code while I was there (I like slushy books on holdiday, okay? and I went around the building looking at all the bizarre details and thinking "this must all point to the location of the Arc of the Covenant or SOMETHING."
Ha! Becky, meet Jo. Jo, meet Becky. Jo, Becky, is the owner of the feet in the top right of this photograph
Tail-end Charlie (or should that be Charlotte?) here.
Found the link via the bloggies (webbies?) award thing.
Paid a visit and decided to stay.
Alli' Cat'
"It feels like you're contributing to some kind of group-work."
Heh. Ultimately, that's why I don't use Flickr.
I'm slightly tempted to post a 'best of' selection of my Lancaster images ('cos many of the others are prob. more 'informative' than 'attractive'!), but only as a lead-in to my own site.
I think I found you that time Tom linked to you, either that or I was looking for reaction to the Grayson Perry prog, found your blog and then read the thing about Tom linking to you. As for why I link to your blog as 'The Court Writer' I have absolutely no idea, obviously there was some great idea behind it at the time, probably along the line of 'tranniefesto' — manifesto — writer of manifestos- court writer (all my links have vague references to people being members of 'my court', delusions of grandeur being my specialised subject).
'Best Choice' who the hell is 'Best Choice'? Makes me sound like a tin of dogfood...
Unfortunately I can't remember where I initially found you, I think it was as a link somewhere.
Fiona
Just started reading your blog, followed the link on Joannas. Glad i did to, it's great! =)