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...
Women are Ireland's top e-shoppers
Whatever you say boss. Consider this mouse untouched — (Note to self: Get a life)
Official Linden Blog — Embracing the Inevitable
Second Life client now Open Source — 
(via Tao Takashi)
Archives, Favourites, Tags & Stuff Like That
Here she goes again: "Blah blah blah — I hate my archives — blah blah blah — too hard to navigate — blah blah blah — loads of good stuff goes missing" (etc). Well, for once, I think I might have come up with a solution 
Let me explain
A few people have said it to me, that this weblog is more than just a personal site — it's a tiny little community. And while I was trying to think of a way of going back through all the stuff I've written to 'mark' it for a 'best of' page of links, it occurred to me that it would be much more fun if it was a joint effort.
Also, in the past, a couple of people have suggested that it would be nice to be able to 'favourite' a post — rather than leaving a comment. So I decided to combine the two
That's why (if you've ever used the "Remember me" thing in the comment form), you should be able to see a little star next to each title. If you click on them, it marks them as a favourite — and when a post gets over a certain number of favourites, it gets included on the archive page.
Cunning huh?
Also — rather obviously — there's a bit of a del.icio.us-like tag-search thing on that page as well. Right at this second I still need to go back through five years' worth of posts and tag them, but I've automagically tagged all my Flickr posts with "photo", so this should work.
I'm still fiddling with it, but it seems to work.
What'cha think? 
Thanks
I've added some more tags — but the whole process is going to take me ages...
http://www.tranniefesto.co.uk/archive/tag/tranny/
http://www.tranniefesto.co.uk/archive/tag/secondlife/
http://www.tranniefesto.co.uk/archive/tag/story/
ages...
Thankfully I've been tagging my posts for a while now (at the moment they do something semi-useful via del.icio.us), so if and when I add a tag explorer, I won't have to go through that.
Great new functionality. I especially like the search result template.
Yeah, true — but I had I known I was going to write so bloody much when I started, I probably would have tried to write some better organisational tools at the time
(Who am I trying to kid? 
)
I must just mention that combinations of tags work too:
http://www.tranniefesto.co.uk/archive/tag/howto+secondlife/
better organisational tools
dunno. Tags are the best system for things like blogs I think — freeform, can shift over time, don't restrict you to preorganised categories or hierarchies of meaning that become obsolete as soon as you create them.
No, I meant "better" as in "better than what I wrote at the time" — which was "none" (natch)
BTW, the tag cloud is working again
(it's a bit lop-sided at the moment, because I've only just started...)
Ah, the humble tag cloud. The mullet of Web 2.0 
You're just jealous
Tag clouds were mullets in April 2005. Siobhan's just being knowingly retro.
(I'm just jealous. )
That's an incredibly cool bit of code. Also, kudos for handing over just a tiny bit of the control of your blog to the masses. The favorite thing does that.
And your thoughts on the iPhone are...?
"Fuck. Me."
yes, very surprising that there's no mention of that iphone.
unless you are at this very minutue writing some huge tract?
"Fuck. Me." indeed
Just been looking at it on Engadget — it looks like the stuff of star trek dreams. If it works properly, I want one.
Is this the place where apple fanGirls register their unholy desire for an iPhone?
Or did I come to the wrong room? 
If it works properly
This is Apple Jane, not Microsoft¹
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Yep, right room.
apple fanGirls
This, coming from a "apple fanGirl" who hosts her pages with ASP. pfft
Looks damn nice though.
WOW! I WANT ONE NOW!
I didn't say I was a fangirl.
I like to think of my tastes being a bit less blinkered.
But I. Want. One. Of. Those.
Sadly I was crestfallen. Gorgeous, widescreen touchscreen iPod, the closest we may ever get to a new Newton or a Mac Tablet, and they give it a bloody 2mp camera.
Apropos of nothing, I can't see the favourite stars 
Absolutely amazing.
I like the way Jobs sneaked out the apple tv announcement under the cover of the stupendous iPhone, as that product looks a bit rubbish.
a bloody 2mp camera
2mp is IMO more than adequate for a mobile device, as due to the form factor they usually can't have the lens or optical path necessary to do a higher resolution any justice whatsoever. Alo there's the storage problems of higher resolution images.
Really the megapixel race is a marketing ploy, quite simply.
Yay. I started conversation.
But yes.
Fuck me.
I must have one. The specs are fucking fantastic. And they even incorporated the motion sensors! My camera does that. It's fun.
the apple tv announcement [...] looks a bit rubbish.
I must confess to not actually having seen the keynote yet, so my first rumblings of this all were gleened from fragments of conversations on Twitter. I pieced a few thigns like "widescreen", "Apple TV" and stuff together (mixing up the iPhone and tv references) and thought they'd released a humungous widescreen HDTV with built-in PVR.
I was hoping for the all in one media hub. Not some big iPod with Front Row and wifi bolted on
I actually think that the Apple TV concept is one I'd throw my money at. I know there are other alternatives, doing the same thing, but in my opinion, we're talking about Apple here and from experience, the UI and overall concept will be better thought out.
The iPhone Concept is awesome, but that goes without saying.
The iPhone looks nice, but no 3G, and a 5 hour call life on the battery? hmmmmmm.
Guess we will have to see when it finally comes out here.
As for the Apple TV it would be handy if we could download TV from iTunes like the yanks.
Seems weird having no computer announcements though.
Apple not announcing computer improvements does sounds odd, but at a time when the CES is about I suppose it is the way things are going for Jobs' mob.
Most people I know would be able to recognise a Nano, or even an iMac, but few people I speak to (not tech-heads) are even aware of OSX. Some friends of mine are even under the impression that Macs run Windows (which in a way, is true.. BootCamp) so announcing Leopard improvements, Intel Quad Core or what-have-you when Microsoft, Motorola and Sony are telling you about digital lifestyles would appear dry.
The only way Apple is getting column inches is down to the fact the average bloke down the pub can tell you what a SLVR, K800 and a PSP is. Add to that the "iPod" brand and you've got a product people will be either loving or hating — before you've even tried it; I'm thinking here of the (in my opinion) awful "Walkman" phones from S-E. I'm a K series phone man myself, so it isn't the S-E brand I dislike.
Maybe we'll see a move towards announcements on computer improvements made at the Annual Developer's Conference. But I agree, I was expecting at least one update on Leopard..
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Oh wow, that's fantastic...