Daily Archive for April 7th, 2009

Short URLs with Wordpress

Published on April 7, 2009 in internet, nixonmcinnes, short, tinyurl, urls and wordpress. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

A big thanks to Brighton-based NixonMcInnes for supplying a Wordpress plugin that, with widespread adoption, would help ease the problem that would occur should one of the URL-shortening services die. Jeremy also writes about the problem here.

After activating the NixonMcInnes plugin, the url of this post will be both a search-engine friendly: http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2009/04/07/short-urls-with-wordpress

..and it will also be:  http://iestyn.net/wp/?p=290

Ok,  so that’s 27 characters vs 25 for a tinyurl, and less should I want to alter some URL rewriting (which I’ll do soon). Not bad, and I’ve just saved my own tiny piece of the internets. 

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M25 Simulator courtesy of Google Street View

Published on April 7, 2009 in google, internet, m25, no i am not serious, simulator and street view. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Thanks to the wonderful Google Street View, you can now experience a simulation of the M25! I bet you’ll all spend hours pretending to drive along the most exciting motorway in Europe. 

For added realism try sitting in a car while looking at this page on your laptop.

Don’t forget to use cursor keys.


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