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...
Why do I always go the wrong way across
...Hyde Park
Bugger. That's twice now I've sent photos to the wrong account
Suit blows £105k in London bar
Damm. Why was I not invited? — (el Reg)
iPhoto Library Manager
My iPhoto libraries (on my desktop and laptop) are too full of old pictures, so I'm going to give this a try — iPhoto is bloody great, but with over 10,000 photos in it, it gets a bit sluggish (unsurprisingly)
Slashdot | Steve Jobs Hates Buttons
If you've read enough of my blog, you'll know why I find this funny
There's more than one Hyde Park? What, how can this be! There's only one Hyde Park, it's the one I've broken in and out of on many a drunken occasion. It has a boating lake, and a weird roped of section of river for weirdos who like to swim in the bloody freezing cold! Where's the other Hyde Park then?
Er, Leeds 
Outside The Box
Just a quick thought that I wanted to write down. It might be of utter insignificance, but it intrigued me for a few seconds a moment ago, and if I don't record it in some way, then it'll irritate me. I mean, after all, what's a blog for if not ther record of the emphemeral notions that whizz past you at 11.30 on a Wednesday night?
All it was, was that I was lying on the sofa, thinking about the style and structure of a web tool that I came up with yesterday, and am going to have a crack at over the weekend (maybe), and I was picturing the layout of it in my head.
I could see the page, and the things that were on it, and it suddenly dawned on my that I was very vividly picturing a white rectangle with things running down it in columns.
And the question that I found myself asking, was what's outside of that rectangle?
Was it a void? Was it blackness? Was it the strange visual substance that everything outside of the television screen while you're watching a film turns into?
But like I said, I just wanted to get that down.
I'm off to bed...
Thankfully you don't have to break in and out of Leeds' Hyde Park (unless you count remembering the right way through it breaking out ;p). Although, you'd be hard pushed to call the seasonal "lake" a lake, I'd love to see anyone try and swim in it though.
Rachel
[snip]
Hey, Siobhan: Maybe it's time to get something more sophisticated than a regex match? How about a word matching thingy?
It's not that a regex approach is wrong, it's just that the spammers have gotten a bit quicker, and a bit "better" over the years. ("Better" as in, more adroit at circumventing the tactics they've seen before.)
I don't know (and I should) but there's probably a spam protector out there for Apache (I presume you use Apache?). It would cut down on the work your server (Erin?) has to do, and it would also help cut down on the number of idiots able to post spam. There's always an idiot capable of spamming — the old "nothing can be foolproof, simply because someone will always find a way to be a better fool" thing.
Just a suggestion! Not intended to preachy, or lecturing, or anything. Just a suggestion.
Carolyn Ann
more sophisticated than a regex match? How about a word mat ching thingy?
Er, because regex isn't more sophisticated than a word match? 
Sorry 
I appreciate the suggestion, and I do wonder if I can use some of the things that I filter email spam with alongside my existing blocking code, but I think that the odd two or three slipping through every couple of days ain't bad, considering that Erin blocks about two to three hundred spam comments a day without my help
Oops. I didn't check my words before hitting "Submit". I meant "heuristic".
(I must have been doing that old associative thing: regex=matching, type in matching...)
Carolyn Ann
You're in London! Come to Ealing Jazz festival tonight