They are for 14 year old kids who are just getting into web design and feel the need to talk about their day at school. After doing all this work I realized that there wasn't a point to it. I've grown out of my 'personal' site phase. I've never created anything like this. No more perl for me.
E-mail a couple of websites and get some plugs here and there.
I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I remember one webmaster telling how he 'bought new shorts at the mall and then watched south park'. This is ridiculous. After my little link exchange journey, I decided that I wasn't interested in any of the sites I saw. If my link ends up on any of these sites I'm going to make sure they take it off.