Day 449: I Make Some Changes Around Here (In My Sidebar)

Time passes; blogs come and go; the leaves turn and fall; the wind's incomplete unrest builds and disperses about the sky. I grow older but less wise; hair spurts from places where monkeys do not usually have places.

And yet this blog - my blog, the blog of Non-workingmonkey - remains*: upright, brave, forthright and strong in the face of war, pestilence, falling readership, loss of attention, over-consumption of manmade foodstuffs leading to a nationwide outbreak of fat children, and bad weather in the Hebrides.

But this does not mean I can rest on my laurels. I must 'move with the times', a little as Cliff Richard did when he teamed up with Transit Morrison for Whenever God Shines His Light, or Lulu did with Take That, and Elton with global smash hit band Blue (that one is really bad - watch out!).

But 'moving with the times' does not mean wholesale change! Oh no. It means - in this instance - taking a 'winning formula' (i.e., this blog and its pedestrian but straightforward layout), and making some 'tweaks'.

So, in case you cannot see them with your own eyes (clue: they are all in the sidebar), let me tell you about the changes I have made. I think you will like them.

Blog Archive

Yes, well, not very original. Still, it's good, all of it, every single bit, even the bits that no-one understood or understands, even to this day. (Please note: it is labelled 'Blog Archive' twice, just in case one of your eyes is hanging out of its socket and looking in a different direction.)

No-one Else Found These Funny

Well, they may have done, but not as funny as I found them. These are (some of!) the posts that I still find really amusing, full in the knowledge that in some instances, not only did no-one laugh, but some people had no idea what was going on!

Putting on blog posts that may not have been very popular is the complete opposite of what everyone else does. This is called 'Disruption', and it is how you describe "doing the opposite of what everyone else does" if you work in marketing.

Genuine Plaudits For Non-Workingmonkey

This is really good and I like it a lot. Pierre Trudeau has been in touch from beyond the grave, and regular readers will know that the REAL Anna Raeburn posted a comment on this web-blog a few days ago! It was really funny. But you had to be there, I suppose.

Things I enjoy with a glass of lemon barley water and a small clay pipe

This is also known as a 'blog roll'. Mine is excellent. Please read Bookseller Crow. He has never given me free books but it is really lovely and probably good for your health.

Get Busy One Time

This is a bit weak, to be fair. It means you can favorite (please note the North American spelling!) this blog on Technorati. But frankly, who cares? I don't even understand Technorati, but I haven't got much else to do and it passed twenty minutes between lunch and high tea earlier today.


That is it. I hope you like it. I know I do.



*Not only does it remain (as in, it is still here), but it also remains a number of different things. Foolhardy. Forthright. Asinine. Puerile. Bedecked with beaver shots. Inconsistent. Random.