I’ve done a lot of tidying up here at I Was An Expat Wife over the past few days. I wasn’t expecting it to take so long, but I was horrified to discover that about, oh, 90% of my links were dead. (If you clicked and hit a brick wall, I apologize. Please re-click.)
I’ve also updated two posts by adding video:
No Paparazzi Please, We’re Canadian now has a short sample of my daughters’ never-ending photo ops with the Chinese in Beijing. (Unfortunately, I found out the hard way that videotapes probably shouldn’t be stored in a damp garage for 5 years. Who knew?)
What’s in a Name? also has a new addition: a YouTube video about Chinese and English names that don’t translate particularly well.
Now I’m done tinkering for a while.
So gratifying to do this type of cleaning, isn’t it! I also realized the other day that I had quite a few dead links in the netherworld of my blog and it’s not a happy feeling. I had the exact same problem with articles I’d written and the magazine went and changed their archive structure. There should be a law against that!
I was thinking the same thing! Where are the Broken Link police when you need them?
I had the very same problem, Maria. On a whim, I started clicking through a few links in the sidebar of my site and realised to my horror that half of them didn’t work. It’s a painstaking process but it feels like you’ve had a good ole declutter once it’s done. I can almost smell the Pine O Cleen over here on I Was An Expat Wife. Looks sparkling.
The blog is now cleaner than my house has ever been, that’s true. And I feel so virtuous, too.
Oh, but the blog is also so much more IMPORTANT than the house, right?
The important thing is that spring cleaning allowed me to avoid doing my real work. Procrastination wins again!
Oh great. Nothing like setting the bar high for the rest of us. Another item goes on the dreaded ‘to do’ list. Sigh…
If it’s any consolation, the rest of my life is in shambles!