Anyway

In the gen­er­al spir­it of tidy­ing up before the Christmas/New Year peri­od I used a link check­er on my blog (Integ­rity on the Mac, I’ve also used Xenu on Win­dows). And dis­covered a bunch of 404s. Some were to sites that still exist but either reor­gan­ized without set­ting up 301 redir­ects, or deleted the con­tent I linked to. Some were to sites that don’t exist any more. I guess part of the price I pay for being part of the spi­der­net that is the web is mak­ing sure my little bit of it is reas­on­ably tidy, so I’ll be delet­ing dead links (though not con­tent) over the next little while. This does raise the issue of the con­tent in cases where I may have referred to, say, a busi­ness that does­n’t exist any more. I’m think­ing I’ll make a small note in cases where it seems to mat­ter, with the determ­in­a­tion of “seems to mat­ter” being some­what arbitrary.

I installed and activ­ated the WP Minor Edit plu­gin for Word­Press and will mark all these changes as minor, so this should­n’t lead to the Atom feed being discombobulated.