As well as cutting the number of links in the Blogroll yesterday, I’m also in the process of cutting out a number of the domain names I own. In all cases I’ve had plans or ideas for them, but they’ve not been done, so I’m going to cut down on the outstanding list.
It may be that in time to come I regret this, but for the most part I’ve had those domains long enough that I really should’ve done something with them if I planned to. I’m keeping some – the ones where I’ve really got ideas – but a goodly number are going to fall by the wayside.
In some ways it annoys me that I’m giving up on these. In others, well, it seems like common sense to do so. I think that reducing the number of things on my “want to do/try” list might actually help me get the ones done that remain on the list once this purging process is over and done with.
Of course it might not, too. We’ll see.
The observant readers of D4D™ may have noticed a bit of a cull in the blogrolls over there ?
Basically, I went through and got rid of a load of blogs that either no longer exist, or that I no longer read. It was a bit of a Night of the Long Knives, but it’s cleaned things up quite a lot.
The thing is, a number of the blogs I no longer go to via D4D™ anyway – I use the Google Reader RSS Feeder, and get everything there. There are some who I go to direct as well, but the majority are primarily via RSS now.
In having lots of other stuff on my mind last week and over the weekend, I missed out on some date fun.
I missed yesterday’s 10:10:10 on 10/10/10 .
I meant to do a post, but other stuff came up instead.
Bum.
Somehow, D4D has managed now to be being written for eight years.
I am simultaneously pleased that it’s gone on so long, and gobsmacked that it’s gone on so long.
I don’t know why, but this week I am just so tired.
Some of it is down to the usual suspects – bad sleep, disturbed sleep, poxy animals, the usual.
Anyway, today is where I’ve hit the limit. Hence, very little in the way of updates etc. A head full of rubbish and fluff.
See you later.
D4D™ is now running on WordPress 3.0.
The upgrade process was remarkably simple – a couple of mouse clicks once I’d backed everything up – and job done.
Consider me impressed.
While I was down in London this time, I organised to meet up with some long-standing friends, most of whom I hadn’t seen in far too long.
I’ve known Lori and Topper since before the first Mancunian Blogmeet (October 2003, fact fiends) , known Pix since I met her at Karen and Pete’s place in Wokingham in around 2004 (I’ve looked back in the archives and can’t find that one mentioned at all – how strange) and Sevitz since Mancuian Blogmeet 2 or 3, I think.
Since then we’ve all met on occasion – and I was able to meet Lori and Sevitz last time I was in London too – but it’s always good to do so again. We do all get on really well, and we really should meet up much more often I think – the time always seems to fly past (and so does the beer) while we all gas and put the world to rights (again).
As Lori says in her own post on it, it’s also interesting to see the way the technology has changed for organising these things. Where it used to be all done via blog and comments, this time it was initially done by email, with final decisions done by email, Twitter and texts on mobile phones/smartphones.
Anyway, it was (again) a really great evening with a dollop of beer consumed as well as some gin and wine (on the part of Lori and Pix) as well as meeting Carl, Pix’s fiancée, which was a joy too.
Hopefully we’ll organise another one within the year!
