Over ten years of web content is serious baggage.
I just cleaned up hundreds of 404′s to archived content and external sources that have, shall we say, passed on.
Yes, you can still view my previous outdated and embarrassing personal web sites. And you always will be able to. Last year I moved the archives to its own subdomain at archive.opaquedream.com. Boy did that help with organizing things and also preventing late night mistakes causing havoc.
The biggest hassle was moving WordPress. The static sites aren’t fun but fixing dead WordPress links in a SQL database is another ballgame entirely.
And I’m a bad boy. I had bad links going back two site moves, meaning years of Google Bot abuse. It feels good to finally have things up-to-date (mostly).
More to come, if you’re paying attention…