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...
Fun With Adverts
Just by sticking a small piece of black electrical tape at the exact right spot on your television screen, you too can spend the evening chuckling at the lack of foresight of some advertising executives...
mymoviemashup
Adam Buxton has told me to vote for Vito — but I can't because I refuse to sign up for myspace. Could someone else perhaps? kthnxbai!
Lifelogging
geek lifelog currantly.org i-fucking-rock
I dunno about you, but I seem to be on a large number of social networking sites. I keep getting these little invites to try out, and as much as I love the thrill of New Things!™, sometimes I do find it rather hard to keep up with everything that's going on on them.
Especially seeing as I have this habit of creating three accounts on each of them 
It's been a little intention of mine for quite some time now, to try and 'consolidate' everything that I'm on into one big 'feed' of some kind — tie all those little instances of myself (and the feedback they generate) into some kind of Grand Unified Theory™.
When he first dragged me kicking-and-screaming into Twitter, > Mr Hicks managed to twist my arm by describing it as "a text version of your 'Currantly' Flickr set", and pointed me in the direction of Jeremy Keith's Lifestream
"Ooooh!", I thought. "That's a little like the thing I've been meaning to do for ages".
That, of course, was bloody months ago — and in all that time I've had a gnawing desire to get off my back side and code something that would do that, but do it across multiple accounts, and bring in a lot of extra things.
But, what with my sudden discovery that I had some time on my hands, I chucked myself into it, and this is the result:
Even though it's not completely finished (nor have I tested it in IE), I'm a bit bloody proud of it
Would anyone like to know how it works? 
currently.org
Inneresting; but there seems to be some date-based 'oddness' at the bottom of this page: http://currantly.org/index.php?p=4
You caught me mid-edit. I have a slight issue with British Summer Time, and some of the feeds (ie. mine) not actually saying what time zone they're in.
I'll sort it out in the morning before I go to Manchester, but in the meantime, I think I need to get very very drunk.
I would like to know your implementation as i have used JK's script before and there is also a Wordpress plugin by Chris J Davies that does a similar thing.
The issue i have found is around RSS feeds expiring or in the case of the wordpress plugin the twitter feed does not validate and therefore you have to throw it through feedburner.
So yes, i would love to see how you have produced it.
It looks great. Just the thing I have been thinking about myself.
Would very much like to know how it works.
OK, I'll write up the code at some point — after I get back from this conference I'm going to today
The really big question in my head at the moment, BTW, is how easy it would be to make this work for anyone — not just me. Most of it is driven just from a Flickr ID, a Twitter/del.icio.us username, or a blog's RSS feed — so in theory it would be a snap to duplicate this.
But there are one or two things that require authenticated HTTP calls, and I'm not sure the best way to deal with those.
I'm guessing you didn't cheat and use Tumblr for this, which is what I did. (I did try a Yahoo Pipes version before, but it sucked.)
No, because I don't think Tumblr could have worked with some of the more 'obscure' things I'm parsing — like the Flickr comments, and my own blog. What I do use Tumblr for though, is posting little snippets and quotes every now and again — and the next thing on my todo list is to bring those into currantly.org as well.
The only issue is that the RSS doesn't specify what kind of post it is¹ — just the content — so there's going to be some Fun With Regex™ going on when I get around to having a crack at it.
¹ Unless I'm seriously missing something somewhere
Yes, I want to know.
And it looks pretty cool, although it is a bit confusing that the avatars are under the speech bubble... but that could only be me. 