Ave atque vale

Well, the time has come. Time to ditch some links to sites that are dead, or at least completely comatose.

http://crackblogstuff.blogspot.com/ - An angry yet happy perspective. - From one of the first people who ever commented on my blog. Has not been updated since September of 2006.

Blue Sundaze - Classic Rock-n-Blues for Northeast PA (be sure to check out the photos!) - The old Blue Sundaze site. Now locked up and inaccessible.

Til August - The birth, life, and death of a rock band! - A brilliant idea that never got off the ground.

What The Hell, the self-described "Ultimate Life In Hell Website" (hell.capefeare.com) - Link taken over by something else.

Jen's Virtual Jen (virtualjen.com/blog) - Domain parked.

Siobhan's Trying To Find My Own - Not updated since August 2005.

Chloe's Watermelon Punch - One post in 2008. No posts in 2009. Went offline for several months in 2009, then came back to sit idle.

Wistful Romantic - Friend of a friend blog. No updates since October 2005.

Random Thoughts of a Deranged Mind - Friend of a friend of a friend blog. Updated several times in 2009, but it's not anything I would read.

M.J. Simpson's Planet Magrathea (planetmagrathea.com) - Dropped shortly after Simpson had a falling-out with the corporate machine that has taken over Douglas Adams's legacy over his bad review of the HHGTTG movie. Taken over by what appears to be a legitimate German blog that has nothing to do with the original.

dok's Innisfree Online - Domain taken over by someone else. dok now posts at House of the Flying Mermaid.

j's secondcup.org from the Philippines - Closed and reopened by someone else. Her old livejournal issy (by the blogger formerly known as j) has been "deleted and purged." Still keep in touch with her, my absolutely oldest online friend (more than eleven years), through Facebook.

SuperG's The Hurricane's Eye - A place where everything is calm - Closed, taken over.

Puppetdude's Puppetdude - deleted.

Wallflower.nu, Camilla Henrikke's blog from Norway - Closed. Dammit. One of the oldest blogs on the blogosphere. Taken over by a link site that has a virus/spyware component.

Also getting rid of these associated links:
Camilla's flickr photos
Camilla's deviantART site
Camilla's YouTube songs and videos
Camilla's NEW moblog

I will hold onto Camilla Henrikke's violentheart.net . It's the last known web presence of the person who was the first blogger I ever read. (Well, the aforementioned "j" may have technically had this spot, though I don't think either of us knew in 1998 that her old site was a "blog." And for that matter, the articles on Penn & Teller's old Sin City site would be considered blog posts today - so maybe they were the first.)

Technically, Sdfsdf.wox.org, Sammie's fun and funny blog from Australia should come off. It's dead by any reasonable definition of the word. Still, Sammie, the first blogger I began reading after Camilla's wallflower.nu, assures me this is just a technical glitch, and she has in fact recently renewed her domain for a two-year period. So I'll keep it up.

Hmmm...I must have known that Super G ditched his new site (supergworld.com/thismodernage/) in favor of his old site (http://thismodernage.blogspot.com/).

The Babblings of a Whimsical-Brainpan is gone, removed by the blogger. I still keep in touch with her daily through Facebook.

Lauren changes blogs about as often as she rearranges furniture. She currently blogs at http://laurenmalone.tumblr.com/. These old blogs of hers are dead or inaccessible:
Lauren's Things I Carry (squarespace version)
thingsicarry.com - Taken over by link site with virus/spyware component.
Lauren's Sundays Off - Open to invited readers only.
Lauren's Please make rice. I love you! (Old site) - Open to invited readers only.
Lauren's Please make rice. I love you! (The Sequel) - Deleted.


There are probably more I could remove, but this is all I have energy for now.

Ave atque vale, old friends. Hail and farewell.