This post is in two parts. The first part is about the latest awards that Kisahberuang.com have received in the past few days. Kisahberuang.com is proud to display those awards here.

The first award was given by Eira of My memory.. my happiness and sadness, and the second one was received from Ien of Teratak Muncet. Thank you to the both of you for these lovely awards.

Secondly, I had another round of cleaning up the blogroll yesterday. A total of 42 blogs were removed from the blogroll due to the following reasons:

1. 30 links were removed for not updating the link from my defunct blog despite the requests to update the link to this blog. That blog is no longer under my control now since Blogger decided to “take over” on an alleged violation of the TOS and I have no idea what it’s all about and there is just no way to request for explanation or to get it fixed.
2. 5 links were removed since I could not locate any reciprocal link to this blog after searching high and low.
3. 3 links were removed due to no new post for the last 3 months. I am not linking to any dead blog.
4. 2 links were removed because they are dead links. Those blogs might have moved somewhere else.
5. 1 link was removed since it only allows specific people to view it. I wonder why this person requested the link exchange in the first place.
6. 1 link was removed since it caused my computer to hang and I have to restart my browser. I do not like that.

So, if you think that your blog was removed from my blogroll by mistake, please do not get upset and leave me nasty comments. Just let me know and you will be added back instantly.

Finally, I have completed the housekeeping task on my blogroll. I think more than 100 links is already a lot for me and I do not want to do it when the list is longer than that. Even for the current list, it took me many hours to check and verify each one of them. Some of you may think that I am nuts but I have my reasons for doing that.

The objective of the exercise was to weed out some links that have not being behaving that good and I have decided to keep on doing that every month starting this month. During the last process, 17 sites were removed and that was due to one or more of the following:

1. Inactive blogs – I am only counting up to three months from this month. Therefore, if a blog has its last entry before May 1st, 2008, I considered that as inactive.
2. No link back to my blog – Some of the blogs that were in my blogroll did not have any link to mine.

If I have removed yours by mistake and your blog is not in any of the category above, please accept my apology and let me know and I will add it back to my list.

Next month, I will be doing the same thing and thanks to BlogRolling, it is very easy for me to do what I need to do. All the blogs that do not have the “updated” word next to it will definitely be investigated.

What about you? Do you go through your blogroll regularly? As for me, I just want only active blogs in my list.