[geeks] New Intel Atom-based barebones system

Dan Sikorski me at dansikorski.com
Fri Aug 15 09:41:55 CDT 2008


nate at portents.com wrote:
> 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:
>   
I am also not a fan of the short url redirector sites.  It seems like it 
would be too easy to abuse them to send me places i don't want to go, be 
it malware for a computer, or malware for eyes (goatse, etc.).

    -Dan Sikorski



More information about the geeks mailing list