Oh yeah, I have a blog site...

Wow. No post since 2009. Amazingly enough, I found this spot again and figured I'd ramble a bit. Weirdly enough, I clicked the login link, on a computer that I don't think I've used to login, and I'm in. So it must be tied to some profile that I am logged in with on some other site. It's getting a little spooky how interconnected the web is getting, and how privacy is disappearing.

So many things have happened since the death of GeoCities. Social media (e.g. facebook) has grown stronger. My home on the web (kimmcnelis.com) has begun to get dusty from neglect. I am still out here, still being transgender (or gender fluid, or whatever term you want to pick). Life is busy, life is generally good. Not that you care, unless you're me; which is probably the only person who's going to read this. So, Kim, this is a slice of September 2014: Traveling a lot for work again (but not in the last few weeks), married over 9 years, expressing my transness through appearance when I want to, and a bunch of other random facts. :)

Love,

Kim

Death of GeoCities, Yahoo 360...

Today I changed my main page on GeoCities (Yahoo) to point to my new home at 50webs.com. Yahoo is shutting down GeoCities, even though they paid several Billion dollars for it in the dot-com boom days.

It's sort of sad, really. To see my old home at http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/5231/ (http://www.geocities.com/kim_yinyang/) torn down. A whole village, city, country, and virtual world gone. Granted, I'm not sure how many people still had their home at GeoCities, given the social networking ( Facebook, Yahoo 360 / Yahoo Profiles, MySpace, Live Spaces, etc.), blogging (e.g. blogger.com ), and other sites that make it so easy to create a 'home' and connect to people.

In a little over a decade I've gone from one of the few geekette's on the web with her own home page (http://www.kimmcnelis.com, which is still hacked together in text files and raw HTML, BTW. Sad, huh?), to a small voice in the maelstrom of online activity. I'm not sad as much as amazed and maybe a little bemused by this. After all, the incredible connection and community possible through a largely free and accessible medium such as the web has done so much for the transgender and other communities. Even specialized community and even dating sites for trans people; be it URNotAlone.com, TGPersonals.com, or many others. I am thankful for the change that has occurred in bringing our community, and many different people, together.

So, anyway, my site is much the same as it has always been. A lot of Yin with a little Yang (visually Yin ;-), the same basic look it's had since 1996 or so. It simply has a new address.

Thanks for coming and finding me, for stopping by, and particularly for reading my little note to you.

Love,
Kim

Once a Year...

Once a year seems to be my update frequency for this blog. I pretty regularly update my blog at http://www.kimmcnelis.com/kim_diary.html and also on Yahoo 360 at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-OX.N0fI6cqt_7UdFnTesFIXscg--?cq=1

Otherwise, I guess I don't update this very often. Too many choices, I guess. Feel free to visit my website (http://www.kimmcnelis.com) for more about me and what's going on lately... :)

First Blogger (Google) Blog Entry... (Where to find my other blogs)

Greetings!

Funny that blogging is such a big deal, and I've been doing it online since 1996 as my online "Diary" (before it was called a blog)... Yes, I'm that old. Anyway, my original blog is at http://www.kimmcnelis.com/kim_diary.html (http://www.geocities.com/kim_yinyang/kim_diary.html or even simply go to http://www.kimmcnelis.com and then click on the Blog/Diary link :)

I have other online blogs, but I'll leave it there for now...