[geeks] New Intel Atom-based barebones system

nate at portents.com nate at portents.com
Fri Aug 15 09:32:29 CDT 2008


> However, would you please consider putting a bookmarklet to a service
> like Shorterlink.org (Shawn's), referurl.net (mine), or bit.ly (cool
> name) in your bookmark bar and consider using it when posting such
> longer URLs?

I actually prefer people just edit down the URL.  Places like Newegg and
Amazon can have their URLs stripped way down to just a product ID string. 
For Newegg, you just need "Item=", so when someone posts a Newegg URL they
can shorten it to just this:

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16856167032

Amazon's URLs can be shorted even more, just needing a "/dp/" followed by
the product code, like this:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0018RWCKA/

- Nate



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