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Three Rules For Commenting On Tranniefesto.co.uk
Markdown is fun. You may prefer HTML or Textile, but I think > John Gruber is hot, and I like the 'email-based-approach' to it all.
Tiny Milestone
I know my blog turned five years old back in February, but I just wanted to randomly note that today is five years since I first made my 'diary' run on a script and a database. So, in a way, today is five years since I started blogging, rather than whatever it's called when you hand-code HTML diary pages.
Five
On the seventh of February, 2002, spurred on by a peer-pressure-induced case of "OMG, everyone else has a website", I registered siobhansplace.co.uk and uploaded a hastily cobbled-together set of .html files, including a page called "My Diary" on which I'd planned to document my "Crossdressing Adventures".
I never really thought, at the time, that it would take over my entire life :unsure:
tranniefesto anniversary stats
Re: search script no longer seems to work
please could you link me to the posts where you talk about your camera and the printing of your stripey picture
Weird Referrers
Firstly, may I just point out that my name is spelt "Siobhan". Not "Sioban", not "Sibhoan", and definately not "Siobahn".
Recognition At Last
Blogging for me, is just attention-seeking through text. So you can imagine my delight to have this pop into my inbox earlier...
del.icio.us Links
I noticed Tom Coates mentioning the 'auto daily linklog' thing in del.icio.us this morning. I, being a casual user of such things (and not an über follower of what's going on on the web at the moment) hadn't noticed this before. I am, however, a firm believer in the idea that I should be able to use a whole bunch of web-apps to generate various bits of content, and squirt them into my blog, so for a while now I've been running a script that takes my del.icio.us RSS feed, formats them however I like, and pulls them into the daily flow. I thought, maybe, you'd like to see it...
Ahem
First day of Spring, first day of a new weblog :)
Rewind
Just a quickie - it's four years since I started this blog. I thought I'd mark the occasion with a Personal Wayback Machine-type of thing. Enjoy, and feel free to laugh yourself silly at the awful style of writing, and the rather unedited pictures of me ... I was a lot less self-censoring in those days...
Invitation
This weblog will be four years old in a month1. I've got a small treat waiting to share on that day, but I thought I'd see if anybody would be up for helping me celebrate by getting absolutely shit-faced having a quiet drink in a pub somewhere.
A Weblog Anatomy
Despite wanting to go off on one about the way transvestites seem to push each other further and further out of the closet, prompted by what Katya said in The Angels this morning (which I might have a go at later, when my head is clearer), I though I might take a little bit of time to answer rather thoroughly one of the questions that pops up in my .INBOX on a regular basis:
Comment Feed
Two years and three months ago, > Kris suggested I put my l33t vi skillz to use by writing an RSS feed for the comments on this blog.
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Dis.connect.ed
Hmm. See, my phoneline's been acting a bit odd of late. About a month or so ago, I was getting terrible reception on my crappy little cordless thing. And then a couple of weeks ago, all I'd get on it was static. It would ring when someone called, but all I'd hear is "pssssfpspsppsfpsappcpcpcpkckkcksss" (or similar).
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On A Techy Note...
...I seem to be getting RSS-Spammed by Technorati :unsure:
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Apologies (Whoops)
So I'm sitting here, throughout the whole of yesterday and this morning (actually, not this morning - I went back to bed at half eight, and slept until one), thinking to myself "Oi! Was it something I said? Everyone's being a little bit quiet at the moment."
Brands Describe People (2)
Sorry, I should have written this yesterday, but I was too busy shovelling red wine down my neck and didn't have a laptop or internet connection.
tranniefesto thedragnet branding
(Ir) Relevance
There's a gnawing concern that's gradually been manefesting itself more and more in my head as the days go on.
Change Is Good
I've been talking about a redesign for a while now, haven't I? This weblog has looked like this for over a year now, and I think it's about time I did something about it.
Weblog Notes
I've been thinking recently about footnotes - or rather, the lack of any cunning part of this weblog's script to deal with them properly. I'd love some kind of little text-based trigger that would shunt a footnote down to the bottom of a page, and leave an anchor in it's place.
Text Wrangling
I'm feeling rather 'prompted' today, partly in response to reading that Mike (of Troubled-Diva) is being interviewed on BBC Radio Nottingham tomorrow morning about being nominated for the Bloggies (ahem BBC Radio Lancashire, why have you not called?!), partly as a reaction to a snippet I found on Paul Hammond's weblog (via Tom Coates):
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 :)
Downtime
Yeah, I know, I only just got back up.
Void Stuff
From time to time - although, curiously, usually over the summer months - I find myself in a bit of a state of limbo. Days seem to stretch out into weeks, all the time goading me into a state of ennui, taunting me with the promise of fun after an unspecified amount of time but rubbing the current frustrations in my face like a rancid piece of cat shit.
Violation
Sometimes, I lose my internet connection through perfectly natural means - like somehow mice get into the circuits, or the Overlords Of Broadband decide for whatever reason that they're going to mess with my head for a while.
Perceptive Audiences
I have a lot to do today. But an IM conversation last night with > Ms Everson prompted a thought that I wanted to just open up as a general discussion topic - notions of 'self' and the preceived understandings of our personalities that those of us who write online have from our audiences.
Tenuous Graphical Subtexts
Lordy. > Jon Hicks has redesigned his logo. I'm in, um, two minds really, but while I'm waiting for his "Reasons, explanations and talk about the process", I thought I'd do something I've been promising myself I'd do for ages, and explain the rationale behind mine.
!edit
You know what my problem is? I just don't know when to shut up.
Unmentionables
Just out of interest, what was I doing this time three years ago...
How to Break Your Weblog
(1) Write your own weblogging system. Frankly, if you rely on Movable Type or some such other thing, then I poo in your face :p
Meta
Over the course of time, things change. The flow of HTTP requests through my humble ADSL line have a considerably different set of agendas than they might have had five years ago - the sources and interests of the people behind each GET has shifted in response to the things that I stick my nose into. And as a result, I'm always very much aware that any core readership the I have is a very different kettle of fish than when it was just me blathering on about What I Said In The Chatroom Last Night™
In Two Minds
I have a confession to make. I'm not altogether happy with my domain name.
White Rabbits
One of these days, I really must go back to fix to some of the scripts that drive this weblog.
www.tranniefesto.co.uk as a graph
Debugging Is Easier When You Have Help
All hail > Joanna and her L33T Skillz!
Search (Bodge)
People often moan at me that I don't have some kind of 'search' thingy. So I knocked up a quick-n-dirty one with grep...
De (Jitter) Bug
Sorry about this - please do ignore me :unsure:
6am. Can't Sleep.
Head buzzing with the residue of a succession of increasingly bizarre dreams - each one slightly more implausible than the last. I think, actually, that might have been the first time I've ever had to apply Godwin's Law to a night's sleep - by the time I'd had a dream with Nazis in it, I figured I should probably get up.
Obligatory Bloggies Post
I'm rather proud of what happened last year. OK, so I came third, and even then there's still some doubt as to whether or not the finalists were listed in place-order. But still, it wasn't bad for someone who'd just taken their first steps into a world outside the usual enclosure of trannies and admirers.
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