Pen-Elayne on the Web

Rambling Maintenance Note

My, people come and go so quickly here! Even though Tom Tomorrow's still officially on hiatus (thus the strikeout through his name on my sidebar's blogroll) he posted a brief bit today, as did his occasional co-conspirator Bob Harris who's got a (temporary) travel page set up on This Modern World. And Priest is back blogging; he's in the Kultcha section for now. I'm considering, as I do every so often, changing the "Top Six" to "Top Reads" and rotating into that section the weblogs I simply cannot do without checking every day, but I keep rejecting the idea for fear that I'll upset someone. I'm also considering putting dollar signs next to everyone on my blogroll who engages in cyber-begging (one dollar sign for passive stuff like Amazon kick-back links and PayPal buttons, two for active fundraising appeals and three for bloggers who beg for money even though they have more than most of us do) but, again, I don't want to piss off friends, so I guess I'll continue to blindly hope they'll come to their senses and someday realize the inappropriateness of their actions. (Note, this condemnation doesn't apply to people who actually need the dough to pay rent and food and such, as do a number of unemployed folks on the roll - just those who persist in asking others to help pay for their blogging, a hobby that requires no money to pursue.) Besides, it's just too much energy to rearrange things at the moment, particularly when I haven't yet shaken the after-effects of last weekend's illness (sleep cycle still shot despite the now-quiet apartment) and have to contend with an employment agency screening today and an actual job interview tomorrow...