Monkey Boy

Knockers

I came across Aeowolfs blog at BlogMad... check out this post knockers. Don't be put off by the innocuous door knocker picture. The only link you really have to check out is the "one of these" link and do play the bounce-o-meter game...sure is fun ...mmmhhhh....sorry ladies not very pc I know but it's a guy thing.

I really wonder if this site is generating the kind of traffic they expected...cos I guess it is mostly being visited by adolescent schoolboys (whatever the age 15 - 85)

BTW this is Africa's oldest schoolboy the 85 year old Kimani Meruge

New Post by Maddox

It's been so long since Maddox created a new post that I have stopped visiting his site...then today on the off chance there was something new I popped over and was *stunned*. A new post. The first in three months.

You have to understand Maddox is not PC (politically correct...NOT personal computer) and he hates bloggers...but he is amusing in his hard-arsed single minded view of the world. Obviously bored he invented a game called spot the pedophile using the FBI's most wanted list...I did really badly 63%...guess I shouldn't be the one hiring babysitters in our house.

My Day

  My Day - 1Wake Up 
  Originally uploaded by MBoy68.

I did it...yesterday actually. I spent the whole day taking photographs then had to whittle them down to 10 to post in the My Day flickr group.

It was a lot of fun...the family was running scared as I kept snapping them at inappropriate moments...heheheeeeeh. Oh I am going to get a lot of drinks poured for me as bribery to prevent the worst of those photos being published. I love it...."the power of film"....okay, okay NOT film then...."the power of flash memory"....see it doesn't have the same ring to it.

So far 4 of us have done this...where are the rest of you!!!!!! Stop hiding behind your monitors and step out onto the internet be brash and be bold.

BTW does anyone know anything about box cameras. I posted on my photograph blog requesting info but so far I have had no comments...have a look at the pic and if you have any information to add please leave me a comment.

Blog Makeover & More

Well I am one chuffed chimp. I won the prize in last weeks contest on the Mystickal Incense Blog. The prize being a blog makeover...I can't wait...bet you can't either, maybe this place will get a little more interesting. Just to be clear - to win the prize took no skill...just pleading and sucking up......

If you don't spend time at the Mystical Incense Blog then your making a BIG mistake (see more sucking up). Stephanie runs a contest every week and this week it is a Mystickal Maze. Absolutely awesome it really must have taken her a long time to compile. The maze is like those old text adventures...does anyone remember "The Hobbit" on ZX Spectrum and Commadore 64. Even if the prizes have already gone step in to the maze...if you dare...there are monsters, gold, worms and David Bowie.....<hand on hips>duh....of course!!!!...whats a maze without Ziggy.

I spent some time on my BlogMad beta testing today. Things are looking good. The interface is very slick and the Ajax stuff is cool (if you think Ajax is a detergent don't worry it will be everywhere before the end of 2006. If nothing else the web will be clean)

I am excited about the BlogMad thing because BlogImplosion is really struggling to send me traffic. I am creating credits twice as fast as they are being utilised...not a good sign. So if you haven't already signed up for BlogMad.........WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR.....oh....and then go visit Mystical Incense.

My Day

AwfulSouls has started a flickr group called My Day. The idea is you post 10 pictures from one of your normal or maybe not so normal days. She even created a neat button for it.

Guess I better get my camera ready and start taking photos.

South Park

Have you noticed all these little South Park characters popping up on everyones blog. Well thats because you can build your own.....why not give it a go.

BTW this is me...Chimp With No Name

New Web Design

While following up on a google query string in my logs the other day...the query was for jonga, you remember the new South African search engine...I stumbled upon www.yellow-llama.com. I liked Mark's site and as I was busy shopping around for someone to redesign my company's web site, www.petrelcc.co.za, I decided to give him a try. (Don't laugh at the current design of www.petrelcc.co.za...I did it some years ago with notepad and as you have probably guessed I have all the design sense of an elephant squashing water melons.)

Once completed my new corporate web site will be designed and delivered in WordPress...you know the blogging software..which makes an interesting addition to Probloggers article on Do You Think of Your Blog as a Blog or a Website, once complete will I think of my website as a website or a blog.

BTW Mark has some pretty funny content on his blog. Check out Photography Lesson and The Wonder Drug - Tequila(r) if you want a good laugh.

Celebrity Blogs - Hilary Duff

Did you know Hilary Duff has a blog? I didn't...but now I do...and I wish I hadn't looked. It's a real good example of how not to blog, especially when you're always "soooo crazy busy". On the upside she only came off sounding slightly flakier than Bruce Willis.

The best celebrity blog I found today was......if I can just drop one more name, please, please, pretty please.....Moby, at least he has a point of view, and posts regular, although the whole ee cummings act does make it hard to read.

BlogExplosion

I'm away at the moment. Don't worry everything is organised. The dogs are being fed, the house is locked up, somebody is looking after my company and I have created some posts on TypePad to automatically deploy at intervals....but....who will surf for me at BlogExplosion.

I think most of my hits come through the traffic exchange BlogExplosion. It will be interesting for me to check my blog stats when I get back to see what drop off in visits I had while away. For the sake of my ego I am hoping for a small percentage. If not I am going to start of the new year pretty bruised. <sigh>

Maybe there's a business in this...surrogate surfing!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas......

Are you wondering where Monkey Boy is...well I hate to say it but I'm...IN THE MALDIVES. My white Christmas is sand and margaritas...not snow and eggnog heh-heh-heh.

I prepared a couple of future date posts, courtesy of TypePad so...<newscaster voice>This is a delayed transmission</newscaster voice>

I am staying at Olhuveli. It was rebuilt this year because it was a little washed away by the tsunami...December 2004. I am hoping the old saying "Tsunamis never strikes twice" is true but apparently when they mounted a rescue last year the guests fought them off bravely. Nobody wanted to go home!!!

If you have commented but have not been published it's because I have to approve my comments (it's been that way ever since iva-big-un@heavybreathing.blogspot.com propositioned me) so I'm not being rude and I will attend to everyone when I get back.

I am home on the 2nd of January and hopefully I'll have a lot of great pictures and stories.