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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 31-year-old dad, percussionist, freelance Web designer, consultant and jack-of-all-trades computer geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the IT Director and Ad Designer at both Sunray and Discover Sunriver. He has LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him.
Opinions and comments on this site are the opinions of the author, not the author's employer, family, friends or pets. This site is powered by Movable Type and is hosted by orty.com. Internet connection provided by BendBroadBand. Since December 1st, 2002, there have been 5529 entries. Visitors to this blog have posted 18145 comments. If you're reading this, you have too much time on your hands. |
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Yet Another Link Shortening ServiceWhy is this one different? Because I'm hosting it. Why? Because I use shorter URLs in e-mails quite a bit and didn't want to always have to rely on tinyurl.com or the multitude of other services out there (not that there's anything wrong with any of them, I just don't want to always have to rely on them). I just decided to make my own using a short domain I already use. So I present sh.orty. Get it, "Shorty"? Kind of like the other types of services that use periods in their name (the most popular, as far as I know, being del.icio.us I took the script from here, the CSS hacks from here, and color scheme from just a random color I picked here. The script is simple, slick, and fast, uses MySQL for the data, and also will reuse URLs if a URL you've submitted has already been submitted before. But my goal was to make it simple and fast, and I think it's doing that just fine. I was just going to use this for my own purposes, but I figured I'd make it public. If there is any abuse of the thing, I will take it down and ban the IP of the person who abused it -- simple as that. But go ahead, try it out, and let me know if you encounter anything weird. Posted by Jake on 05/07/06 @ 01:32 PM
Posted in Geekdom, Jake | 4 Comments | Permalink Submit to digg, del.icio.us, reddit, or stumbleupon 4 CommentsAaron Wormus said on 05/08/06 @ 01:50 AM:Hey, i've been wanting to do this for a while. I have another idea, we should talk... it's good!!! DNVC said on 05/31/07 @ 01:36 PM: Very nice site. ekrem didin said on 10/07/08 @ 07:20 AM: what about this jub? ekrem didin said on 10/07/08 @ 07:21 AM: how we can start Post a comment |
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