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On Honesty, Self-Projection, And Photo-Thievery (of sorts)
I find it very difficult to write about things in a structred way these days. I think that perhaps, in the past, I used to have deep angerisms running through me that needed to be vented, and, along with an in-house Curran-vetting process (my Ex) I could come out with a stream of vaguely constructive prose about a particular issue that irked me.
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OMG
Dressing Up
Lots of photos of me wearing women's clothing for a change
Apologies for yesterday :unsure: I personally thought it was hilarious - but hey, I'm never a good judge of that sort of thing.
Shit
I am, obviously, a fan of user-generated content. The old models of top-down publishing within the creative arts are defunct. Because of sites like Flickr and del.cio.us, the web is bristling with new forms of creativity - communities and identities springing up all over the place, exuding life, spontanaeity and 'art'.
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Invert Tastes
More On Building With SVG
...because where's the fun in code if you can't share it, eh?
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For The Record
I realise that it's a consistent moan of mine - and one that I really probably could do something about if I set my mind to it - but I'm always lamenting that the day-to-day format of this blog means that if I do something I consider to me A Cool Thing™ and mention it, within a couple of days it's slipped into obscurity.
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Influxes And Tipping Points
I'm not entirely sure exactly what I'm trying to say here, but it's something that's generally occupying my head (in a fuzzy way) at the moment - the whole mass democratisation aspect of the 'new web' (as it were). My general concern, at this exact moment in time, is that I'm going to come across as some kind of 'snob' - but fuck it...
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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.
Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Screen
I'm going to have to provide a certain amount of background context for this. Apologies therefore if you've been with me since the start and I end up going over old ground. That's one of the problems with writing a weblog I guess - not knowing at what point someone reading it has come in. When you have to delve into the past, you run the risk of generating an Internet-wide "Eh?, because you left out a certain piece of previously-blogged information.
Anonymity
Let's see if I can explain this then :unsure:. It's a tricky issue, and one that (as Jill reminded me yesterday this morning) is quite relevant to the Online-Trannie™ phenomenon.
A Collection of Memories, Relating to All The Embarrassing Times I've Been Out Dressed In Lancaster
Tennis Skirt
Never Say "No" To an Ape
OF course, the first time I ever wore a skirt in front of anyone happened to be the first time I was pissed...
Conversations of an Email Variety
A collaborative post with Mike of Troubled Diva
I would appear to be on The Most Uncomfortable Train In The World™
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When Transvestites Meet (Awkwardly)
The day I met Eddie Izzard
First of all, apologies for re-posting a story that I've talked about before. There's two reasons for this: Firstly, when I originally wrote about it, I was in a bit of a flap - and although I still get little panic attacks about the event, I figure I'm in a better position to tell it.
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A Ramble
If I was to say to you that I'd invented blogging, you'd probably think I was lying.
Dear Internets, Happy Christmas
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Rich-Media Delivery In Second Life - A HOWTO
There are (amongst other things, of course) two things in relation to technology and code that get me excited: (1) using a set of restricted tools to achieve something previously thought impossible, and (2) getting tools to do things they weren't necessarily designed for.
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Entitled
On Realism and Reconstruction
I am, I think, on record in a fair few places as being someone who finds the practice of replicating Real Life environments in Second Life to be a bit tedious.
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Five Things You Didn't Know About Me
Dammit, memed - and it was all my own fault. I must try and remember to keep my interfering gob shut this year.
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Happy Torchwood Crew Snogging Bingo Fun Game!
While the promised post-watershed 'adult' content hasn't quite lived up to expectations, one thing that we have been treated to so far in Torchwood is good old-fashined random snogging every five minutes. Now you too can join in the BBC bi-fest with this exciting, state-of-the-art, interactive blatant copyright rip-off fan-art Torchwood Snogging Bingo!
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Some Of My Friends Hate This Skirt
Paths Of Self Discovery
Online privacy and anonymity is something that I've covered before in the past, but it's something that's been playing on my mind again recently.
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The Trouble With Forums
One thing that I've noticed Miss K doing to me, is leaving tiny comments, then going off and expanding on them extensively in her own weblog. So I'm going to do the same...
Ready
Specifics of the Origins
(Somewhere, deep in the bowels of Westminster Abbey, you can just about hear the sounds of a subterranean-rotational-movement coming from beneath a stone that says "Darwin")
How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Blog Post By Trying to be Too Clever
(A desperate attempt to avoid ranting about tomorrow being "Father's Day" and the hideous commercialisation that represents...)
Cinderella
I've told this story before, but seeing as some might have missed it, it feels right to repeat it.
dressingup story memory tranny
Sooner or later...
...someone will leave derogatory comments on your website.
Eight Hours Old
So, cast your minds back to February, 1972...
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 :)
Gragra
Finished
The TrannieSphere©™
Ausdauer
Building H Building
Apologies in advance (1) to Daft Punk, I'm sorry I used your music. (2) to everyone else. I'm sorry I used Daft Punk's music.
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Antisoftener
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Wet Floor
Linking to > Ms Everson above reminded me of something I knocked up whilst working on something with her. I realise that the wet floor effect is all over the place these days - and is, perhaps, becoming a little clichéd (like drop shadows before it) - but while we were experimenting with ways of displaying photographs, I tried playing around with a 'Coverflow-like' way of doing things ... and I thought I'd share :)
Caption Competition
Sloppy Seconds
Do you ever get the feeling that wherever you go, someone's been there before?
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So You Want To Be Irish...
...and let's face it, who wouldn't eh? The Irish are loved world-wide. Nobody has any gripes with them, they're all lovely and cuddly, and they're good for a laugh. And what with this being St. Patrick's Day, I thought I'd publish my little ten-step guide to what you need to do to convince everyone around you that you've got the Liffy flowing in your veins.
I am Boy
Xtreme Crossdressing
(Transvestism to the Max!)
It's All About Dialogue
Oh boy, nothing like the opinions of a real woman to get the handbags of trannies rattling.
Why I think I'm a Transvestite
I mentioned I had a theory on this a while back, didn't I?
Anonymity Domine
That's a crap title isn't it? It only works if you're a bit of a Pink Floyd fan, and even then, it's a bit tenuous. But whatever, I was having a really hard time thinking of a title for this.
Stick it in your pipe and smoke it...
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Her Hir Majesty, The Queen's Siobhan Curran's Message to the Commonwealth TrannieSphere
Rousing fanfare. National Anthem - 'Man I Feel Like A Woman'
Vocal Dischords
Apologies for the directionless rambling. I guess I talk the same way that I write - sidetracking all over the place, and eventually forgetting the plot. But hey. To be honest, I wouldn't sit down and watch this - the video is really just me flapping my hands about. I'd have it on in the background while doing the dishes or something...
Sad
The John Peel Story™
I wrote this ages ago, I was saving it for a day when I couldn't think of anything to write - but it seems more than fitting to tell it today.
Reprincess
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There Is No Us, There Is Only I
Kisa blags her way onto primetime BBC1
A few weeks ago, I got a tp from a friend to pop over to her house, and was rather surprised to find a short balding man in her place. A couple of nights previously, I'd had an email from the same friend, asking me how much I'd charge to make an avatar of someone.
/me needs new friend
trannyflickrverse v0.1
You Are Bollard's Newest Contact!
Why I'm Called What I Am
It was interesting, today, reading through someone writing about me and completely getting my name wrong. It felt a little patronising to be honest - like they hadn't taken any time whatsoever to get to know anything about me. At one point, I seem to recall they actually put my (mispelt) name in quotation marks.
My Day, In Full
(Siobhan, curious to see what would happen if she adopted the "My Mundane Life" style of weblog-posting, decides to detail her day in minute detail...)
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:
Staking A Claim
I am not, it must be said, noted for my desire for self-publicity (stop laughing Kath), nor indeed any particular stroppy princess streak of behaviour (I said stop laughing :P). But I thought, what with the current Tranniesphere expansion, I thought I'd get this one in early...
Build Your Own Spitfire!
A discussion about Grayson Perry's "Why Men Wear Frocks" documentary
Hmm...
Who's Afraid of Barnett Newman?
I have issues with computer graphics. Serious issues. Many years ago, I used to get very excited about the developments that were being made in CGI technology ... I remember one particular moment when I was about ten years old, and a friend of mine was telling me how someone had worked out a way to smooth the edges of shapes, by blurring them slightly.
On Passing
A rant about 'going out'
Sally love, I totally agree. But let me expand on that a little...
Deprincessing
:def deprincess:
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