Monkey Review

So we heard about this Twitter thing and decided to sign up to see what the f*ck it was all about…
http://twitter.com/MonkeyReview is our Twitter page..

So we signed up to the “suggested users” twitter told us too and searched for a few minor celebrities that we know are using twitter..

Paul Daniels was a famous magician a long time ago…. but he’s since done sweet f.a. on TV.  The last thing i remember was when Louis Theroux met him and his wife…..  that was an interesting show!

what delights does Paul inform us off in twitter?

Did you know that old gardeners used to pee into big glass bottles, dilute it 50/50 and sprinkle it on the lawn and it killed moss?

Crikey, Now I am tweeting gardening tips. Next I will become an Agony Aunt. Perhaps Agony Uncle would be better.

Don’t think I live on here. I was passing by on the way to the vacuum cleaner!

Debbie is now back from the gym so I will go and pretend to be working. Re fingers and thumbs. Just go slowly. Speed up later. ‘bye

Ah, there’s the dinner gong. Debbie, the chef, will be in full evening dress so I had best make an effort. Now, where’s my dickie

Yes that’s right…  pretty much nothing…. although it leaves me with the impression that Paul is quite a lonely old man walking about his big empty house twittering away whilst his wife is out “exercising” at the gym…

I love the idea that every night she cooks dinner in “full evening dress” and lays it on the table and down the stairs comes Paul in a full suit with a bow tie… not just your standard fake bow tie but a proper one that tied properly!

Paul has over 10,000 people following his twittering…

It was here i suddenly understood what all the fuss about twitter was…

Nearly everyone has used some sort of social network site before…. Facebook, Myspace even maybe Friendster!  What makes Twitter different is that you don’t become friends with anyone you “follow” them….

So Twitter has basically allowed people to peek into “celebrities” lives and…. talk with them!

Imagine that a real life celebrity actually sending a message to you!

No longer do you have to write to magazines to get your favourite pop star to answer your question!  You don’t even have to be a teenage girl to write your questions…

and that’s the whole point of twitter…. you can talk to celebrities and they can answer you…  no more embarrassment in the newsagents whilst you pretend that your buying Just 17 and NME are for your sister, rather than to find out if Madonna likes to have 1 or 2 sugers in her coffee…

Even the most minor of celebrities have thousands of people following them… imagine all these washed up celebrities sitting at home bored* given the opertunity to let their long lost fanbase they can give them money (i.e. buy their shit) whilst boosting their long deflated egos.

We’re fans of twitter now and we’re off to find out what Paul is up to now!

*MonkeyReview do not feel that Paul Daniels is a “washed up celebrity who is sitting at home bored”

*update*

Paul’s off to bed!

So all in all a really good day. And now to attack my bed… I deserve my beauty sleep.. and I KNOW I need it. Love to all. xxx to ladies

You may notcie that we now have Facebook Connect.
This means that you can post comments without having to register to our site!
Hopefully its all stable and running now (a few minor theme edits had to be made)
Thankyou www.sociable.es !

Cheers Jay i think thanks to you i now have me old b2evo feeds pointing to my nice new feedburner feeds!

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner
RewriteCond %{Query_String} ^tempskin=_rss2
RewriteRule .* http://feeds.feedburner.com/myFeed? [R,L]

The basic syntax for anyone wanting to know

Hello people!  I’ve moved from b2evolution to Wordpress as i think its a better blogging system. (Although both have their strong points!)

When i started Monkey Review it was with a friend to get free tickets for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. That was incredibly unsuccessful and we reviewed a total of 0 shows!  Although we did manage to blag tickets to Eurobeat the Musical by asking every person with flyers for free tickets at The Pleasance Bar in Edinburgh whilst drinking cheap lager!  Then it was a Joomla website which was a little too much work.

I decided to moved it to a blogging system, when i had started to use the site as a place for great stuff i found on the net, and i was swayed by b2evolutions lovely built in statistics.  I liked b2evolution but i had one problem.  The problem was when found a video of a someone covering The Final Countdown on the Kazookeylele! This was incredibly popular (having over 200,000 hits!) and crashed my website and the server.

Why did this happen? well nothing was cached and the site was rebuilt on each request.  My website just couldn’t handle all these hits and so melted.

I asked my host what happened and they said that i was using too much of the cpu…..  i optimised my sql tables and cleared the session logs.

It still kept on crashing…  there was no super cache style plugin for b2evo so i could do nothing.

This along with the fact that i’m too lazy to write a theme for my website myself means that i’ve moved the website to a wordpress installation!

It wasn’t an easy process and a lot of data had to be transferred by hand (my php scripting is a bit rusty) but i’ve finally completed it and this is the result!

Hope you like it.

http://mp3zr.com/

Everyone loves something for free well this site seems to be able to find a good few mp3’s on the internet!

Enjoy!

p.s. if mp3zr.com is down try this web app…. http://www.b3ta.cr3ation.co.uk/site/music-plus/

LivePlace.com has posted a video displaying a very impressive render of a 3D virtual world called City Space. At this point very little is known about LivePlace, other than that the WHOIS lists the domain’s owner as Brad Greenspan, one of the co-founders of MySpace.

LivePlace looks like it will run on OTOY, the 3D engine that renders graphics in the cloud. The technology allows relatively weak computers (or even mobile phones) to display incredibly detailed graphics comparable to those seen in Hollywood movies.

The video shows a massive virtual city filled with towering skyscrapers, parks, user-customized apartments and houses, public meeting places, subways, and everything else you might expect in a metropolitan area, all beautifully rendered by the OTOY engine. The game also features impressive real time lighting, reflection, and weather effects that rival those seen in detailed 3D games (and even some movies).

At this point it appears that gameplay will be focused on human avatars, who can own their own living spaces and offices, buy and sell goods at a virtual mall, and interact with each other in public places.

While there are a number of online games that offer impressive graphics (though none of this caliber), the real potential behind LivePlace and the OTOY engine is the cloud-based rendering engine, which allows games on almost any computer to play without needing a powerful graphics card. OTOY has been developed to work in any browser without a plugin, which makes the barrier for entry into this virtual world much lower than Second Life. Of course, we have no idea when City Space will actually launch, so it’s far to early to hail it as the second coming of social online worlds.