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Friday, April 28, 2006

Calendars

I decided I don't like Upcoming as a shared calendar organiser, a great idea but too fiddly to use and too focused on events by location rather than events by "areas of interest".

But I am liking Google Calendar, so far. If you're using it, or thinking of using it, and you're the kind of person who likes to keep track of tranny events in the UK, you might like to click on this.

If you're the kind of person who arranges tranny events and stuff, let me know of any events you want adding. At some point I'll get round to writing something that ties into the API and does clever things.

Probably. :-)
Blogger Jessica  Probably, that means I'll think about it in the shower for a bit and then go and watch TV instead. 
Anonymous Siobhan Curran  Actually Jessica, I thought "Probably" meant that you'd be getting a phone call in the not to distant future, with references to "puppies" and "strangulation" 
Blogger Becky  Heheh, it's not what you know, it's who you know how to manipulate. ;-) 

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Thursday, April 27, 2006

Oh the power!

Look! I made someone do something!

Here.

It's very good too. :-)
Blogger jessica_sweet_tv  Becky you are becoming so powerfull. Better stop you before you start commanding invasions. 
Blogger sim  Grrr, I have free will, but becky practices Fens, backwater voodoo. 

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Barbie in Derby

Kind of trips off the tongue doesn't it? Got a long weekend coming up, Jane and I are visiting friends on Friday night, and on Saturday we're off to Sophie's for her birthday BBQ bash. Some blogging may ensue, if not I'll see you on the other side!
Blogger Jane  A bit like Rumble in the Jungle but with Bakewell tarts and a nice cup of tea. 
Blogger Jessica  Looking forward to it, not seen you guys in about 5 months!! :-O I mean, I've seen my family more than you! Well my parents at least. 
Blogger steph_angel  "but with Bakewell tarts and a nice cup of tea..."

It's actually Bakewell puddings...especially if you're anywhere near Bakewell. Tarts!!! Boy you'd get linched!!!

Can't make Sophie's, which is a real shame 'cus like Jess I haven't seen you all in AGES... 
Blogger Joanna  ** /me wonders whether to make a tart joke anyway.. then decides against it..** 
Blogger MichaelTGO  <--decides not to make joke about linch-pin (pulling) getting lynched (hung) or anything Whatever to do with dolls (Barbie) 
Anonymous Sophie Green  You can use my laptop after we've eaten charcoal and I've fallen over drunk three times. There's also a prize for the most expensive birthday present :)

Sorry you can't make it Steph but there will be other bbqs soon, I'll let you know x 
Blogger Jessica  YOUR laptop? Looks like im getting that prize then, it had better be edible 

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Scalpel... suction... spanner...

Overheard in the office:
“It’s hardly rocket surgery!”
I have this cartoon in my mind of a couple of surgeons working on a prostate missile. The kind of thing Plutos the Bubbleman knocks out. (Hint. Hint.) ;-)
Blogger VB-W  Measure with micrometer.
Mark with scribe.
Cut with axe. 
Blogger jessica_sweet_tv  Then it should not be that complicated. 
Anonymous Lara  Click,

Now I know why My blog stats just got ransacked, should have know it's not brain science.

Hmm , I'll think about that one.

(Eaves dropping on conversations by the way?) 
Anonymous Tish  Hello Dear Becky! Thanks for coming by my blog and commenting on one of my more ridiculous and dare I say idiotic stories. I tell those kind of sagas while I stretch/torture patients, so you can see why many ask for a different therapist (ha ha)
I see we share two common blog 'pals' - Stegbeetle and Sim over at Pluto's the Bubbleman. Aren't they both just scrumptious?
But then, so are you.
We must chat one day/email as one of my life long ambitions is to visit Australia, or sleep with one. CRAP, that whole married vow thing. Oh well.
Take care 
Blogger Becky  Thanks Tish. :-)

I should point out that I'm not, actually, Australian. However did you get the idea I was? :-D 
Anonymous Tish  Well, CRAP as we say here. You will have to forgive me, I was educated in a small southern town where geography and seed spitting are emphasized the same.
PLUS there was an Aussie comment/visitor right before yours on my blog. CRAP.
Normally, it takes me at least three comments on someone's blog to show my ignorance. You are the WINNER. 
Anonymous Genette  I've been thinking of having a nose-cone job or maybe a whole face lift-off... 

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The Tinkerbell Syndrome

I watched a programme on BBC3 yesterday evening called "The Trouble with Gay Men". In it, Simon Fanshawe discussed what he saw as the problems with being gay in Britain today.

Programmes like this always interest me. The gay scene in the UK overlaps the tranny scene more than some trannies would like to accept, and the gay mentality overlaps the tranny mentality more than some trannies would like to admit.

Simon Fanshawe is gay, and he grew up fighting for the rights that gay men now almost take for granted. Today in Britain, gay men enjoy almost identical rights to straight people . Gay culture, Simon argues, should now "grow out" of it's adolescent penchant for sex and drugs and adopt a more adult and responsible attitude.

I'm not steeped in gay culture, but from what I've seen of it, and from parallels I can draw with the tranny culture, this isn't going to happen. Why? Because part of the appeal of being in these cultures is the ability it gives you to not to act your age or be responsible. A lot of trannies (myself included I admit) dress in clothes that aren't always appropriate to our ages. Because in some ways enjoying transvestism is as much about denying your adulthood as it is about denying your masculinity. That's why, I think, trannies sometimes describe it as a "release"; they are (temporarily) abdicating the responsibilities of their age as well as their gender.

If many gays are suffering from the Peter Pan syndrome, then many trannies are suffering from something similar. We're just not as keen on wearing green.

There'll always be the gay guys who want to settle down in steady monogamous relationships and be "grown up", but there'll always be gay men who just want to sleep around with as many guys as they can and do a lot of drugs. Equally there'll always be trannies who dress to their age and who's idea of a good night is watching EastEnders en-femme, and other trannies who dress up like teenagers (or younger) and frolic about like there's no tomorrow.

Simon used that horrible argument that gays who perpetuate the image of homosexual men as camp, carefree, vain sexual deviants are ruining it for the "good" sensible gays like him. This smells very much like the protests I sometimes hear from trannies who get their knickers in a twist about anyone or anything that doesn't present "a positive image of transgenderism". Whatever that is.

If you want to be seen as part of a culture, but you don't like the parts that don't fit your morals or standards, then you should work to make your part of the culture more visible, rather than deriding or denying what the others are doing. There's no point in me pretending, for example, that a lot of trannies aren't just hairy panty-wearing freaks. They are, God love 'em.

But then there's me too. I'm not. And neither are a lot of my friends. If you want to be part of a culture, you have to put up with the other people in it. It's their culture too.
Blogger Jessica  I think that a lot of men in straight relationships only really settle down and act grown up because the girl makes them! But if you get two men together there's no stopping them. Some would say promiscuity and immaturity is a very male thing, gay or straight, it just gets out of control with gay men though. I don't know how lesbians fit into this, most lesbians I've known for more than a year or two have ended up settling down with a BF, so no comment on that. 
Blogger April Angell  You are possibly right Jessica, as much as I hate generalisations. However there are always exceptions; sometimes I wonder if I live my life deliberately fighting assumptions, but I'm old enough to know my own path now.

Am I on my own in wanting settle down in a steady relationship and do a lot of drugs? 
Blogger Debbie Huggins  Like in all cultures, there will always be the extremes. Be it in the straight, transgender, gay, or lesbian worlds.
I suppose "a positive image of transgenderism" is anything that does'nt negatively effect what has been accomplished by trannys so far. 
Blogger Rachel  Debbie, what has been accomplished for trannies so far? As far as I can see what has been accomplished has been by individuals for themselves, leaving aside TS related legislation. As Becky says, and she's quite right, we're a huge cross-section, and that in itself defies categorisation. So, what one trannie sees as a step forward another sees as going in the opposite direction. I think if society can recognise diversity for what it is and exercise some tolerance that's what I'd call going in the right direction - BTW, anyone got a map? ;) 
Blogger Michelle Faith  Well put, there is a wide spectrum of TG people, Some look downright normal and some look like a traffic accident so what. The ones who look like a traffic accident in a way make it way easier for those of us that are far more middle of the road.
I was getting off a train near my house the other day and there was a trannie there, black pattent leather thigh high stilletto boots, black and white striped tights, Gawdy make up, way out hair. I just turned to my wife and said" at least I don't dress like that" she just laughed.
The world is a big place just find out where you are happiest 
Blogger Freiya  I think the transgender culture is fairly unique in that there are so many different variations and degrees. Some of us are full time, some part time, some are ts, some tv, some with bits, some without, some inbetween, the list goes on and on and on but the important thing is that we all have a kind of running theme, we are all connected by the gender thread, for some people maybe its abit of cotton, for others its a rope, but it's there, joining us all, wheather you're a post op tg or a drag queen.
A step in the right direction would be to realise this i guess,..... as Becky says it's their culture too, and although you might not think it, to someone, you could be one of 'them' ;)

As for presenting a positive image of transgenderism, well isn't that exactly what we are doing right now within the blogosphere? 
Blogger Karol Cross  I go out with gay and lesbian friends on a regular basis. Some are promiscuous and do a lot of drugs, some aren't. To be honest I think the gay/drugs thing is a red herring, if you enjoy the club scene then you're going to be surrounded by people taking drugs, whether its a gay club or the straightest of mainstream clubs.

I've always thought of the trannie scene as being a generation (or two) behind the gay scene, and what I've learned from reading up on the history of gay rights has tended to confirm that view.

I greatly enjoyed Freiyas comments, although I would like to suggest that gender doesn’t tie us all together. For example, for many dressing is a fetish not a gender issue.

I originally assumed that I’d have something in common with other “T” folk besides the fact that we all wear womens clothes. But I've met lots of people who dress over the last 6 years and found that I have absolutely nothing in common with them whatsoever. Their motivations and goals are very different to mine. (And I'm not just referring to the hairy panty wearers). But as many have said thats cool, its a big world and theres room for everyone. And I’m sure as Freiya quite rightly pointed out, that they were probably as confused by me as I was by them!

Once I realised that the “T” scene could be thought of as disparate niche groups, it made a little more sense and it again seemed to map onto the gay scene as there are lots of niche groups within their culture too. And they seem to have got their act together over the last 37 years. Heck of a long time to wait though! ;o) 
Blogger Rachel  ...and then there's all the niche groups in the hetro, non-crossdressing world - let's face it a lot of them are mutually exclusive too... what is the globe coming to? ;) 
Blogger Misty  The media love to use the extremities of any minority as representitive of that minority, and the more (ahem) "normal" members of the group can get resentful of this extreme image being used to tar everyone with the same brush.
Shoving all aspects of the TG world in the public arena (i.e. the WWW) is possibly the best thing that could happen. Education is a wonderful thing. 

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Monday, April 24, 2006

Extreme to the Max!

A while back Joanna (inspired by extreme ironing) had the idea to set up a Flickr Group for pictures of cross-dressing in extreme environments, which she called (with her typical wit and imagination) Extreme Crossdressing.

Cue some rather lacklustre attempts to rise to the challenge by me, Karol and a few others. Then Siobhan decided to go trampolining in a wedding dress.

Then it went a bit quiet, and standards dropped. The last one I was really impressed with was this. (Woah dudette! Standing in a lake! EXTREME!)

And then Gillian comes along today and raises the bar.

Very very high.

Now, you see, your average tranny-in-the-street can't compete with that. That's just overkill. A normal person would give up and say she's "won" the competition. But not me, I decided to bring out the big guns.

I've had this picture in my collection for a few years now (rougly 14 billion) but I didn't think it was good enough quality to present. But Gillian needs bringing down a peg or two.

So behold, Becky cross-dresses in the most extreme environment ever, about five trillionths of a second after the big bang:

Becky standing next to a very very big explosion.

Yeah, I know, you don't need to tell me... I should have used a fill-in flash.

Look, I was in a hurry, okay? It was a one-take deal!
Blogger Joanna  Actually, I think the only outfit that could survive that would be one of Siobhans really really big dresses. 
Blogger Daisy  You're looking good for a little over 14 billion. 
Anonymous Natalie  Since you're that old, do you mind me asking what kind of face scrub you use? You're skin is awesome! 
Anonymous Tiffany  Becky: Straight from the stellar nursery to your home! 
Blogger Gillian  "Gillian needs bringing down a peg or two" - sniff!

but but but, surely the only entity around then was god, so I can infer

A. You are god
B. God is a tranny?

does the vatican know? 
Blogger Becky  "A. You are god"

No Gillian, I wouldn't dare make that assertation. Besides, who do you think was holding the camera?

"B. God is a tranny?"

Again no, but he did say he admired my work. I guess that would make him... 
Blogger Kath Adams  does the vatican know?

Haven't you seen what the Pope wears? 

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Saturday, April 22, 2006

Snake


Slight change of pace.

Jane and I went for a walk around King's Lynn's docks today, and I took some pictures that I'm particularly pleased with.

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Audience

You see, it's all about audience. When I write to this blog, I'm writing almost subconsciously with an audience in mind. It affects the way I write, and what I write about. When I first started blogging my mental audience was, basically, my close friends. Then over time I started to modify that audience. I realised I'd got a sizeable non-UK readership, so I try when I remember not to use too many British colloquialisms. Meeting Jane had another effect, with her in the audience I'm less happy blogging about my personal feelings. Not because I don't want her to know them, just that I think she deserves to hear them first. Strangely, I've become more private now I have someone to share my private life with.

But, usually I write as if I'm talking to friends. My mental audience for my website is made up of:
  • people I know

  • people I don't know but are cool with the tranny thing

  • and people I don't know who aren't cool with the tranny thing, which is fine because I don't care what they think.

The other day I was told by my boss that he'd been told by his boss that my site had been discovered within my organisation. I wasn't in trouble, per-se, my boss just wanted to warn me off from blogging too explicitly about my workplace.

I'm very grateful for that warning, and it's forced me to re-think things a bit. For one thing it made me decide to tell a close work colleague about all this (the post from a couple of days ago). For another I realise now that I was being very blasé about what I blogged about.

It was inevitable that this site got found by one or more people within my organisation at some time. Back when I started this site, nearly 4 years ago, I was surprised if I got 3 hits from Google a day. Now I'm getting 3 Google hits a minute. One of them was eventually bound to be someone who knew me.

So now there's a new section of the audience that I have in my mind: people I know, but that might not cool with the tranny thing. I don't know how big that section is, depending on the gossip mill at my organisation it could be anything from 4 to 400 people. They might all be cool with it, I dunno. Hope they are.

I'm going to try to stop it affecting the way I blog and the things I blog about (apart from avoiding blogging about my organisation in explicit terms). At the moment, though, it's hard. Even this blog entry was difficult to put together.

I know, I'll do what public speakers do when intimidated by their audience...

I'm now imagining you all naked.
Anonymous Clair  Trust me... you really don't want to imagine me naked ;) 
Anonymous Tiffany  No! Only two people get to see me naked, and one is my mother! 
Blogger VB-W  In a way the private word was the a good way to make you see the light. Having looked at other blogs that are no longer existing, most went the same way. They blogged about their work and over time became more intimate and 'uncomplimentary'. Then one day they were called to the office of the big cheese and handed their P45.

From some of your writings I did notice a certain cynical/realistic attitude towards the NHS in general. It wasn't what you wrote, it was because it was public that caused the situation. But at least you saw the signs early.

The days of the work blog are numbered. In any workplace everyone talks about the management as though they are overpaid incompetent paper shufflers; which many are. It's a way of British life. But go public and harpies shall cast hellfire and brimstone upon you. 
Anonymous Becky T  There are a few people at my work who know about my website and dip into it from time to time. The organisation I work for has rather a lot of influence over certain things in life, so I have always tried to be very, very vague about my opinions in those areas and I have no particular desire to be pulled up for writing too explicitly or negatively. Kind of a bugger for wanting to blog at all really.

I think almost anyone who writes a blog thinks about who might be reading it. My friends read mine (when they remember), so it would be less than clever to badmouth anyone, and even being vague to the point of saying "a friend" or using an initial is unwise if they're likely to know what sort of things you were doing. 
Blogger Zoe Bergstroem  3*60*24 = 4320 Google-Visitors a day plus a really bunch of Links and Bookmarkt. Thats hard against my maybe 250-300 readers a day

pheew. thats the Time i think again about blogging in english.... The germanspeaking World is definitely too short ;-)

hmmm but i think i have to work on my english... and i would lost my german readers. 

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Torchwood!

Is it the new Bad Wolf? :)

(Thought I'd get in first with that bit of Doctor-Who-Related obscurity.) :-D
Blogger Becky  Ah... I see.... :-)

Shouldn't blog before the end of the episode.

Excellent stuff! Last week was Tennant's "difficult second album". Magnificent return to form! 
Blogger Freiya  it was rather good wasn't it? and next week! i am very very excited about the robot dogs return! 
Blogger Miss K  I watched it with Siobhan last night but neither of us can remember anything except a huge telescope (calm down) and the monks from a hitherto unseen BBC 1 ident.

Of course, we were very, *very* drunk 
Anonymous vikki_cduk  torchwood? - its all pointers to the new (late night) series with John Barrowman... really looking forward to next weeks... K9!!!! 
Anonymous vikki_cduk  oops forgot to say - really enjoy this blog (always makes me smile!) 
Blogger Becky  LOL, yes Miss K, the similarity to the BBC ident(s) was noted. Deliberate?

Vikki, welcome aboard. Yeah I guessed it was related to the Barrowman series, at the time I blogged they'd just slipped in the Torchwood mention, and I wondered if it was going to be like "Bad Wolf" in the last series, a little thread running through the season.

Coincidentally, Bad Wolf was alluded to later on. :-) 
Anonymous Beki  Torchwood has also been mentioned in the books. I think they're finally linking the mythos with the tv series. which is odd, as they're both produced by the BBC! 

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Thursday, April 20, 2006

Er... hi...

So, I think I have at least one new reader tonight. Someone who's known Simon for quite a few years but only just today found out about "all this".

Hi, thanks for taking it so well, but I knew you would, really. You're the most open-minded Daily Mail reader I know. ;-)

Take a look around. Have a good laugh... I'm not worried about being laughed at because basically, it is funny. If I found out something like this, I'd laugh too. :-)

I'm kind of hoping you're laughing between periods of jaw-dropping amazement!

Oh, and if you have any questions, just ask!
Anonymous Ken  Hi Si.. erm... Becky :-) Life’s full of surprises and I really didn’t see this one coming at all. Nice website, you make a better woman than I could have possibly imagined! 
Blogger Becky  Phew. :-) 
Anonymous Mr Y  Oh my God!
Thats the most shocking thing I've heard so far.

Kens a Daily Mail reader! 
Anonymous Anonymous  Only since the split from Barbie. 
Blogger Jane  I know Mr Y and I thought he was a nice guy too. Now I'm scared and shocked.

.... How could Ken read the "Daily Mail" 
Blogger Michelle Faith  Becky, wow! you do know an awful lot of cool straight people, must be something in the water over there, or just planetary alignment or something. 
Blogger Debbie Huggins  I'm beginning to believe Beckys reach is world wide. This lady is in awe and a smidgen envy. 
Blogger Julie Budd  Becky.. how did Ken find out ?
What was your reaction ? He sounds super cool about it.

Julie
x 
Blogger Stegbeetle  Yes, there's lots of "cool straight people" in Lynn, isn't there? *cough* 

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

The pursuit of cool

When I started up this blog, I made one pledge to myself:

Do no harm.

Then I realised that doctors had taken first dibs on that pledge, so I came up with another one:

Be original.

Which fitted me better, and had the added advantage of leaving me open to do as much harm as I jolly well liked.

But of course I didn't really actually go so far as to think up a pledge and write it down. It was just there in the back of my mind, what I thought made a good blog and what didn't. Over the time I've imposed on myself a few rough-and-ready rules such as:
  • It's not a how-to-write-a-blog site: Don't blog about blogging(oops)

  • It's not a link aggregator: Don't just post links to other people's work

  • It's just not a place for posting personality quiz results: "I'm the Franco-Prussian War! Find out which German War of Unification you are by clicking here!"

  • It's not a diary. I don't want to write about what happened every hour of every day of my life, and I'm pretty sure most people don't want to read it.

  • It's not pretty and it's not clever: I'm not a programmer, so the code will be functional rather than whizz-bang, and I'm not a designer, so it's never gonna be a Thing of Beauty.
I am, sometimes, handy with words and I think I can craft something funny when the muse comes to me. So that is what I decided to do, play to my strengths.

Hopefully it works. Rather than falling between the two stools of "aesthetically pleasing" and "technically clever", I made a third stool. A stool for putting the stuff I do on. It's my stool and I like it a lot, thank you.

You see, I realised a some time ago that I'm not cool.

Being a transvestite isn't cool, it might be interesting, sometimes exciting, and it's edging towards socially acceptable. But it's not "cool". If it was then more cool people would do it (or, at least, own up to doing it), but to a fairly great extent they don't.

Neither is having a blog (popular or not) cool. It stopped being even remotely cool sometime around the time Boris Johnson got one.

Being funny isn't cool. Comedians aren't cool. A lot of them became comedians because they weren't cool. Uncoolness is almost a prerequisite.

Being good at programming isn't cool. Even if you write AJAX code on a Mac made out of lemon-scented Buckminsterfullerine. Sorry, it just isn't.

So, the pursuit of coolness through dressing up in ladies clothes, and blogging about it in a funny way with the occasional bit of hamster-related programming thrown in for good measure... is basically pointless.

Coolness is elusive, and it is nice to achieve, but it comes to you, you can't go to it.

What's the point of this post? I don't know. It almost certainly falls foul of at least one of my rules.

It's just something I wanted to say.

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Anonymous Sylvia  Thats one of the most intellegient things Ive heard all day. I totally agree. 
Anonymous Fairly-Odd  Blogging is everything. Blogging is nothing. For me, it's a sideways way to communicate with others.

Oh, and there's no denying your coolness. So stop trying. 
Blogger steph_angel  I'm interested to find out if Boris Johnson checks his referer stats. We could be in for some rather interesting blog commnents if he does!!! 
Blogger Jessica  You just ruled out all my blogging methods. That's why my blog is so much more popular than yours! ha 
Blogger Jane  Coolness involves too much staring at yourself in the mirror, ironing your hair straight, dangerous on the ears that btw, wearing black and pretenting to like Sonic Youth.

Far better to be interesting it lasts longer and is more fun.

BTW I think I've worked out how Boris pulls all those birds 
Anonymous Tricia  I'm a tranny, and I'm reading your blog. How uncool is that? 
Anonymous Tiffany  I happen to think you're pretty cool. And I think I've got a pretty good handle on cool.

...or I'm just really messed-up and think I know cool. I wish I could figure it out. Um. 
Blogger Debbie Huggins  Bex, you are very cool. Your coolness has a life of its own.
I do believe you have set the benchmark for all things cool.
But, look out, I'm going to try to creep up on you. 
Blogger Becky  Heheh, believe it or not, that blog posting wasn't intended as a way to get you to all say I'm cool. But it's nice all the same. 
Blogger Zoe Bergstroem  which german war i am? I don't know. maybe the war 2006 when our glorious National football team beats yours with 5:0 in the final :-) 
Blogger Kat  Cool... One man's cool is another man's lame.

Some people think Pete Doherty is cool. Whereas I think he's a bit of a tw@. Some people think putting your collar up on your polo shirt is cool. I think it's banal.

C'est la vie. 
Anonymous Anonymous  'Transvestite' and 'cool' really aren't mutually exclusive... trust me ;) 
Blogger Lizz  It's a post about blogging!!!

Still, very cool indeed. Course, if you do not like the idea of being cool, perhaps nifty works? 
Anonymous Natalie  I just have to agree with Kat on the topic of popped collars. 
Blogger Julie Budd  Getting off your polo horse with your collar up is pretty cool. 

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The World According to SurfControl

I am no longer Adult!

According to SurfControl's test-a-site:
www.beckysweb.co.uk is in our list
and categorized as Entertainment
In other words: if you're stuck behind a SurfControl content filter at work that blocks "adult" stuff, you can now visit my site!

All thanks to some aggressive campaigning by me.

Well, I filled in a form online.

But I did it aggressively.

Would be nice if someone could independently confirm this. If you're on my site and you couldn't get here before, comment! :-)
Blogger Zoe Bergstroem  Great.

how can i find out, if I'm adult? 
Blogger Jessica  I'm not even in their list, how rubbish am I? 
Blogger Becky  Zoe: go to surfcontrol.com and click on the "Test a Site" link.

Jessica: aw, I think you're adult even if no-one else does! ;-) 
Blogger Jane  What Test a site link? Couldn't see it on the surf control home page at all, well not on my version I'm not an user of it.

Anyways I've known you're not adult for ages and ages ;-) 
Blogger Brian  Works for me! Now I can read you at work.

I mean, I could read you at work, but obviously I'm far too busy working....right? 
Blogger Joanna  Ack.. both me and the Angels sites are flagged as Adult.. 
Blogger Jane  found the button Becky, don't panic.

Oh... you weren't 
Blogger Karol Cross  Its not a trick is it?

Using the old "aha, now we've got your web address we can block you!" strategy? 
Blogger Zoe Bergstroem  okay, they don't know my sites :-) 
Anonymous Anonymous  Sweet, I'm totally not in their directory, but I wonder if I could campaign to get myself labeled as "Adult," even though I'm not in any sense of the word. :P


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