It is probably not obvious, but I’ve spent the past week — rather compulsively — working on this blog, and the Links Blog. I can’t swear to it, but I think that every link on this sidebar, and all my blogroll links, now work. I’ve cleared out dead links, and deleted inactive sites. It’s like sweeping dead bugs from the basement, only more tedious.
Surprisingly, one of the oldest blogrolls was the most intact; people who blog about or for their cats seem to stick with it longer than other bloggers. I think I had to remove only two or three sites from that one. There’s probably a PhD thesis in that somewhere.
There was an Aortal link on the sidebar, and one for an Insignificant Microbe: help it evolve, but when I went to update those I was reminded why I so rarely do so. At least one third of the Aortal links are dead, or should be; and most of the Insignificant Microbes are the same. I may just move up the evolutionary ladder, to Lowly Insects, perhaps, or Flippery Fish — if a blog gets that far, at least it’s likely to be somewhat active.
I don’t know what to do about the Aortal problem. I know that maintaining that kind of directory is a lot of work. I wrote to them some time ago about this, but never heard back.
Speaking of problems, a reader has kindly let me know that Watermark is not showing updates on his Blogroll. I’ve suspected this was happening, just from noticing a few times when I was visiting other sites that my updates weren’t registering. Anyone have an idea why this might be? I also see I’ve dropped from a Large Mammal to a Marauding Marsupial at TTLB, but I’m assuming this is a temporary glitch. I doubt that I’ve really dropped from nearly 500 to 70 links overnight.
Let’s see, what else . . . Oh, yes. I’ve added a couple of new toys (found at scribblingwoman)– a Page Rank Check from BlogFlux, and buttons that are supposed to show the current egopoint status of searches on my name and domain, but don’t. They’re off by about five thousand points.
If I didn’t have a healthy ego, this might make me paranoid.
Speaking of which, please let me know if you see any problems. Really.
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