i'm cleaning up my blog

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Thought maybe I had all kinds of sage things to say to you today, but just managed to blurt out the most urgent of it in the one post. While waiting for the rest of what I had to say to bubble up, I began dealing with the completely outrageous list of fleeting cleverisms that turned up as labels here over the years, and lumping stuff I'd separated out for our convenience back together again, because they are, like, so, way so, ancient history. If you have historical urges that I've thwarted thus, sorry man, but most of it wasn't posted such that it was very googlable anyway. If it's life and death, you can wade, or maybe I can even help you wade, but that goddam label list was dizzying and making it HARD to deal with my label thing at all.

Along the way, I came across some seriously, seriously dead posts, with no living links and no context left to put something back together, so I deleted them. I know there are tons more of that ilk, and may someday have the spit to tackle that, but it was the most urgent to get a grip on the labels. Done.

I also changed some of the sidebar image links to ones that are more suitable for NOW, and tried to find as many dead guys over there as I could, and hope you are remembering to notify me when/if you come across anything over there that's pft on us, so I can do something about it and keep from aggravating future visitors.

I recently added some fancy ass feature to my feed, that included the ability to "email the author"... but... I have a sneaking suspicion that feature does not work. This may be due to newness, but if yer ever in the mood to try that feature, please do, and we can see if it works or not for real. I've gotten a couple of invites to things from the "no reply" thing, but I'm unsure if that's my feed emailer or some organizations' emailers. Basically, I have a loathing for useless "features" and will nix the sucker if it doesn't work for you guys out there in feed land.

Also, while about my business today, three cool links came my way: [1] It Pays To Riot; [2] Sour Grapes Over Putin's Manliness and Involvement With the People of Russia; and [3] A Peutiful Image of the Sun's Corona in Eclipse. So those things ought to make up for my hours and hours of housecleaning while you were left hanging.

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