Comments on Becky's T-Blog: ID

I find it preferable to use two completely separat...

2008-11-26T13:49:00.000Z

I find it preferable to use two completely separate user accounts on my systems. This keeps everything easily compartmentalized.

What about Sandboxie - keeps a separate fork of yo...

2008-11-06T21:45:00.000Z

What about Sandboxie - keeps a separate fork of your filesystems and registry? So my firefox inside Sandboxie has my Demelza cookies/usernames, the one on my desktop has Mr D.

Kath's a multi-browser girl too. 'Bob' uses Firefo...

2008-10-11T14:43:00.000+01:00

Kath's a multi-browser girl too. 'Bob' uses Firefox & Firefox while Kath uses IE or Safari.

Mrs Bob only ever uses Firefox on either machine, so she won't accidently stumble in to Kath's world (which she knows about but keeps at arms length!)

Jessica, thanks for mentioning CookieSwap! I am go...

2008-10-08T14:33:00.000+01:00

Jessica, thanks for mentioning CookieSwap! I am going to give it a try. It's nice to have some tools that lessen the load for those of us who try to live two separate lives.

You should have told your techie friend that maybe people like Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent would want to have two different status messages. Could you imagine Clark's status message being "Just flown into work"?

I had a conversation along those lines with a tech...

2008-10-08T11:40:00.000+01:00

I had a conversation along those lines with a techie from Yahoo, he just didn't understand why you'd want two or more separate identities unless you were doing something you shouldn't be. I held back from screaming "what about the trannies!?!".

In the mean time I'm grateful for a little firefox plugin called CookieSwap which lets me flick between two or more whole sets of identities online.

I have to say I was over the moon when my ever up-...

2008-10-08T02:53:00.000+01:00

I have to say I was over the moon when my ever up-to-the-moment geek husband told me that I could hide my status updates on Facebook from work colleagues. Hallelujah! Finally my status updates can be real!

But I get nervous - about my work vs personal life, but also about accidentally outing one of my tranny friends. What if I post a comment on a blog like this, someone finds the Thribble name, knows who I am IRL, and puts two and two together? What's a girl to do? Which is why you very rarely see me write anything - it doesn't mean I'm not reading and thinking, though!

I know what you mean, but personally it's going th...

2008-10-08T02:43:00.000+01:00

I know what you mean, but personally it's going the other way for me, in a real life way.

More and more of 'his' mates are now being introduced or made aware of 'her'. With very little discernible reaction. So the crossing of the streams is becoming less and less of a concern. And as the years pass, I'm getting to the point where I don't give a damn, Scarlett.

NB. talking about oneself in the third person is the way of the dark side and professional sportmen.

I was thinking of Facebook the other day and wishe...

2008-10-07T18:10:00.000+01:00

I was thinking of Facebook the other day and wished they had a way of controlling who sees what...other friends...status updates...and the ability to post different status messages at the same time to different people. An example would be if I wanted my close friends to know that I was going through a hard time but didn't want people I just associate to know the same thing.

But then I thought of the management of knowing what you are saying to one group while what you are saying to another is beyond me...and even beyond my ability to manage/know the larger picture.

So, I choose to live a fragmented life...living life as Jasmin on one hand and living my male life on the other. The two different groups of people I know would not mix well at a social gathering...there might even be a fight or two!

I want to go into a tranny chat room and have ever...

2008-10-07T17:46:00.000+01:00

I want to go into a tranny chat room and have everyone go "NORM!"

I love the way Google announces the fact that Step...

2008-10-07T13:47:00.000+01:00

I love the way Google announces the fact that Steph Angel is logged onto my home PC, whenever I've commented on someone's blog!!! I could of course try to remember to log off, but do I???

I also love to communicate with my web host support department (which I use rather too much!!!)... My site is registered & paid for by blokey me, but my email is girlie me, and I can never remember which one I use... I think it changes every time :-p

It doesn't work all that well going the other way,...

2008-10-07T12:39:00.000+01:00

It doesn't work all that well going the other way, either, though. When I decided to transition I wanted to get rid of my male identity (obviously) but also my Delacey pseudonym - and have everything under one name.

It's harder than I thought. At Last.fm, for instance, my username was a version of my male name. You can't change your username, though. So I had to delete that account - and lose years of charts and stuff - and begin all over again. My blog is registered to that Delacey woman - and I can't change it. I could make a new Wordpress blog - but it's too much of a pain...

The trouble is, too, you can't remember everything. I'm still getting surprised when I log onto a site that I haven't visited for a long time and seeing what name I'm being greeted as :-p

I know what you mean. Juggling the two identities ...

2008-10-07T08:57:00.000+01:00

I know what you mean. Juggling the two identities is quite a pain at times.

I have the different browsers scenario as well. Jo uses IE and Outlook Express. Bob uses Firefox and Outlook.

Google Chrome is up for grabs....

Yeah, we need this. Really quite badly... and the ...

2008-10-07T07:44:00.000+01:00

Yeah, we need this. Really quite badly... and the endless mergers and acquisitions between the big Internet 'brands' makes the problem worse as time goes on. Micro$oft acquired Hotmail, Yahoo got eGroups... and so on. What started out as separate identities on various sites are being scrunched together into an amalgam that I didn't choose. It's one reason why I chose the low-tech backwater, 'Diaryland' for my blog. Perhaps one day, somebody will make them an offer they can't refuse, though.

Is Hyperglobal Mega Consultants a division of Home...

2008-10-07T07:35:00.000+01:00

Is Hyperglobal Mega Consultants a division of Homers Compu-Hyper-Global-Mega-Net?

Know how it is.Ever since I nearly sent a client a...

2008-10-07T00:47:00.000+01:00

Know how it is.

Ever since I nearly sent a client an email from the wrong the gmail account. I've been trying to find a solution, transition is one rather drastic idea I suppose :). For the time being its to use different browsers.

Can't run 25 seperate online identities like some, so a programe that did it would be great,

Ugh! Tell me about it...I'm working on a little pr...

2008-10-06T23:31:00.000+01:00

Ugh! Tell me about it...

I'm working on a little project with a tranny theme. Its going to go on my blog and shared with the Trannisphere.

But I'm soliciting advice from a design website I frequent in Bob mode. Which means I have to leave out the thematics stuff, and only discuss the practical nuts-and-bolts stuff.

Of course which rampant ego do I feed when I finally put my name on it?

My male name, and get flagged as "tranny???" (or worse "admirer"!). Or Pandora and lose it from my portfolio?

I think RTD was on to something with that "psychic paper" in Nu-Who.

Kill two birds with one stone? A tranny networking...

2008-10-06T23:28:00.000+01:00

Kill two birds with one stone? A tranny networking site, perhaps. It might be a step towards identity pluralism:

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Send Ellie an incomprehensible Sms-speak message filled with innuendo and astonishingly brave questions

Poke Ellie