I hit the little “hotlink” feature up there in the preamble to this blog yesterday, and discovered that the NHL Bloggers group I joined some time back has gone the way of the dodo.

Way back, I wrote something about NHL hockey, and shortly thereafter I was approached to join that group. Confessing that I might only ever occasionally mention NHL hockey in this space, they remained keen to include me. After I did join, I tried to toss in the odd mention, but ultimately veered off into the sort of jibbetty-jabber that I am clearly most comfortable with.

And yet, they kept me on, linking this site to theirs, and growing by what seemed to be leaps and hops.

Then, the logo sort-of disappeared, and I simply dismissed it as a failing of either the host site, or the modern Armageddon that we call Windows Vista. Curiosity eventually got the best of me, and I hit the link just to see what was going on.

The link now sends you to some virtual parking space, flogging sports tickets. Gone are the hundreds of bloggers that were once assembled, paying homage to the great sport of NHL hockey.

Which now leaves me free of any obligation, other than to corrupt classic old fairy tales, assemble and distribute whining weather reports, alternate varied rubber chickens, and remain atop my soapbox, flaying Windows, while lusting after an Apple.

So really, pretty much nothing will change around here…

Chow for now!!