Lose some, win some
I have been doing some weeding.
Not, I hasten to add in the garden, as it's pissing rain once more and it feels more like October out there.
I have been weeding my links page.
The page takes a tiny bit of patience, as it just displays a list of links in a random order. If however you hang on for a second or two, it sorts all the links showing their latest posts and when it was posted. I decided to weed out those links that hadn't been updated in a year or more.
It's a sad job to see a load of old sites that I knew and loved disappearing into a black hole but then that's the way of things. Some I know have ceased publishing but I have left them there [how could anyone delete Captain Ranty?].
In all I deleted 52 sites, which leaves me with just 35 active ones. Damn but that's sad!
However, they say that every cloud has a silver lining [though I don’t think that applies to grey skies in August]. I did a wee search to see if there were any sites linking here that I didn't know about, and bugger me but there were.
Now I have to visit 'em all and see if they are up to date, and also read 'em all.
That should take a while?
Then I will add them to my page.
I just checked it and it appears my last post was 42 days ago. Damn, I'm slacking. The again, I've been a bit preoccupied of late. I could write a post about that but I won't.
Don't worry. You still have 323 days to think up something. Just Sayin'.
I have kept the Captain too, couldn't bear to delete him, I kept all his emails as well.
Likewise, Carol.
He's still on my Twitter list, still in my bookmarked blogs and still in my mind.
Damn, I even pop back to his site sometimes, in the vain hope that it was all a horrible mistake, and he's posted something new…
Glad to know that there are at least two other people who feel like me.
Dammit, I still haven't deleted my sister's email address and she died four years ago!
The Captain shall always stay on my list, just as his email address will never be deleted. The Captain shall live on!
I think blogging was a great popular and independent movement a decade ago, then the hacks got in on the act, pretending the commercial stuff they wrote for their paymasters was blogging – some professional journalists now describe themselves as "bloggers", all it means is that the stuff they one wrote for newsprint now appears on a website. Google searches that might once have found free thought now produce pages of links to newspapers and media outlets.
I couldn't agree more. The whole scene seems to have lost its edge here in Ireland, with the news outlets pushing in from one side and the "fluffy" bloggers on the other [those who write about fashion, cookery and hairdos – the Pink Brigade]. There are very few of the old school left here, sadly.