TECHNOLOGY: SNIPURL, like TINYURL, but with a twist

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

http://snipurl.com

SnipURL – Snippetty snip snip with your long URLs!

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Website URLs are long and difficult to remember. SnipURL allows you to “snip” your long URLs into small, friendly and persistent links for sharing and remembering. Free!

Successful. Your snipped url(s):
http://snipurl.com/1dzna
http://snipurl.com/turkeyfarm

Original URL: 56 characters
Snipped URL: 24 characters (43% of original)

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Interesting, you get a shot at claiming a short name forever, you can review (edit?) the underlying redirection, and see all your work over time.

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RANT: Hey Governor Corzine … … still wanna hear about state cars? … (continued) …

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

You don’t? TOO BAD!

This morning 28 March at 0730 est on Route 296 milepost 47 … …

… … a white suv sg 24 301 … …

… zipped down at leisurely 80 (Your serf speed limit is 65)

… tailgating the poor peon in his way

… never left the left lane

(Do you teach them to do that, or is that a qualification for working for the state of nujerzee!?)

… was blissfully blazing down the left lane until impeded by yet another serf trying to get to work to pay the taxes. (How rude of them not to give way before their betters!)

I was especially aggrieved because there were two serfs receiving citations from your centurions on the road way that I passed.

Any way I am sure that the person was hurrying to get away from I assume trenton to protect and serve me.

Arghhh!

P.S.: Dear reader, I don’t write these every day. Just when I ARRIVE early for work, particularly agitated aggravated and have to wait for my employer workstation to get online.

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TECHNOLOGY: FEEDBLITZ fails again and misses some of my better work.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

#1642 2007-03-26 9:22:00 pm
Liberty: What is liberty?
http://tinyurl.com/2nxvzq

#1641 2007-03-26 8:12:00 pm
LIBERTY: Ahh yes, the gooferment’s skoolz … and why send children there?
http://tinyurl.com/2ae5hk

1640 2007-03-26 7:58:00 pm
RANT: Isn’t a car an offensive weapon?
http://tinyurl.com/2lron3

1639 2007-03-26 6:33:00 pm
LIBERTY: Ron Paul for President
http://tinyurl.com/yraj29

1638 2007-03-26 5:06:00 pm
GUNS: Women should be armed. Not with a cell phone, but a nice “girlie” handgun!
http://tinyurl.com/2uzt4h

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RANT: GMail unavailable

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

One reason to have your own domain.

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RANT: DELL in addition to being late; sent stuff that doesn’t fit.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

I wanted to reformat LUGGABLE’s drive to reinstall and get rid of the winrot that’s been plaguing me. Argh! So I ordered a DELL XPS drive and the external enclosure. (DELL didn’t meet my dates, expectations, or such but that’s another story.) So, last night, I got around to trying it.

Guess what?

The drive is too big for the enclosure.

Argh!

I pinged for an “return”. How much fun is that going to be.

I may never buy anything online again! Certainly not from DELL.

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TECHNOLOGY: I love WordPress; just NOT the long urls

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Freeloader Reinke reporting in with a new thought. (It’s so rare I have them I just had to share it. Besides I couldn’t sleep tonight so if I’m up everyone should be up.) (I tried to put this in last time I thought of it but you closed the feedback door, I forgot about it, and the delay is all your fault.)

Long urls.

Don’t get me wrong, I love WordPress. But the urls that you produce are too long imho. I use tinyurl a lot when I blog, email, or comment. Only because the likelihood of getting one right is lowered by length. If transcription is involved, forget about it.

Here’s an illustration.

https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/
technology-an-impressive-mindmap-of-blogging-platforms/

has a length of 96 characters and resulted in the following TinyURL which has a length of 25 characters:

http://tinyurl.com/3dscft

Now, I bet that WordPress has an underlying database there somewhere. And further I bet it has an index in there somewhere. And I’ll be that ReinkeFacesLife maps to USER#123456 and “3dscft” maps to post #1492.

Finally I’d guess that it might be possible to expose a url like http://www.wordpress.com/123456/1492 if you really wanted to.

Tell me that this is already available and I’ll be really embarrassed. I thought I read ALL the doc.

Any way, here’s my insomnia fueled idea fwiw.

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Update: Here’s the WordPress response. 

From: Mark @ wordpress.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 5:15 AM
To: reinkefj
Subject: [WordPress #CFW-680457]: reinkefj.wordpress.com

Hi,
It’s not already there.
The permalink is created using the most friendly option.
It tells a real person the date / title at a glance and it also is good for search engines.
You can shorten yours though – http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/post-options-post-slug/
–

Mark

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Not what I wanted to hear, but at least I didn’t overlook an option. fjohn

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TECHNOLOGY: An impressive mindmap of blogging platforms

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

http://businessandblogging.com/2007/03/11/
business-blogging-platforms-part-4-expanding-the-mindmap/

http://tinyurl.com/25pq28

Blogging Platforms – Part 4 – Expanding the Mindmap
Des Walsh | March 11th 2007 – 23:18

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In this fourth third post of the Business Blogging Platforms, I want to mention first that I’ve updated the original mindmap of the series to … … …

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Wow, ever feel humbled.

The most humbling experience I ever had was when I saw a Rembrandt up close and personal at the Belagio in Vegas. It was the eyes. I knew that I could never create what I was looking at. It was humbling.

I had a hint of that feeling when I wandered over Des Walsh’s “business and blogging” site. What a mindmap of blogging platforms.

Now, I’ve player around with mindmapping. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindmapping

If you’ve never tried it, think of a NYC subwaymap. It’s a visual abstraction of everything the creator thinks you should know about a topic in one visual. You can grok http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok a topic fully from the creator’s pov. I describe it as quickly getting up on some shoulder for a better view. Like a kid at a parade. Don’t confuse the better view for real understanding. Or, the ability to do it yourself.

SO, take a quick look at that mindmap if (1) you want a snapshot of what blogging platforms are out there; (2) you want to see a well-executed mindmap; or (3) your ego needs a little deflating. (Mine always does.)

I was impressed and that’s not easy. Now where are my colored pens?

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Liberty: What is liberty?

Monday, March 26, 2007

http://jpetrie.myweb.uga.edu/poor_richard.html

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

– Ben Franklin

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LIBERTY: Ahh yes, the gooferment’s skoolz … and why send children there?

Monday, March 26, 2007

http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/174948

http://tinyurl.com/ywjg5r

Tucson Region
Wanted: A little time with soldier dad
School balks at excusing absences for GI’s kids
By Carol Ann Alaimo
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 03.23.2007

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When her husband comes home to Tucson on leave from Iraq, Keila Rios could face a dilemma she finds infuriating. She plans to take their children out of school for a week to spend time with their Army dad. But when she asked for makeup work they could do at home, she initially was told they’d receive zeroes if they didn’t go to class.

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Here’s a good example of why the gooferment should be separated from the skoolz!

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RANT: Isn’t a car an offensive weapon?

Monday, March 26, 2007

http://www.nj.com/columns/ledger/mulshine/index.ssf?/
base/columns-0/1174541432174490.xml&coll=1

http://tinyurl.com/3avu3n

Founders would applaud pistol-packing mama
Thursday, March 22, 2007
by Paul Mushine

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These days, the cops take sides. They don’t enforce the laws against tailgating, but let a little lady even the odds a bit, and all of a sudden the cops pull out the cuffs.

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“An armed society is a polite society.” Very polite!

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