Considering how helpful I’ve been in the past to Best Buy shoppers (don’t get me started about the guy who was recommending McAfee over Grisoft, just because “you get what you pay for”), I really should just try this.
Thanks djbahls for the link.
Yet Another Link Shortening Service
Why 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.
Nice Desktop Icons
I’m just mostly booking marking this for my own reference, but I’m sure somebody else might find it handy.
The Endless Forest
This looks fascinating, and while I never use screensavers (I prefer to just have my monitor turn off), I might start using this one.
Why I Will Never Be A Drinker
Because you never know what’s in those rum barrels.
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian builders who drank their way to the bottom of a huge barrel of rum while renovating a house got a nasty surprise when a pickled corpse tumbled out of the empty barrel, a police magazine website reported.
Thanks Cheryl for the link.
Don’t We Wish We Had His Problems
Bill Gates wishes he wasn’t so rich. He’s welcome to share some of that with me, if he’s wanting to dump off some of his wealth.
Screw Dr. Phil
I’m going to watch Mr. T’s new show.
Random YouTube Video Dump
Have a bunch of YouTube videos sitting in my inbox here, so I figured I’d just dump them all at once:
- Real Life Frogger
- Kitty and Rooster — friends? (Thanks Cheryl)
- A friend sends me a music video some friends of his made. It’s a bit out there for me, but the fact that it’s composed entirely of clips and sounds from the Evil Dead movie trilogy might interest someone.
- C For Cookie (great V For Vendetta parody).
- Banned XBox Commercial
- VW Commercial
(Thanks Greg)
Enjoy!
Were they really saying “I’m Trapped In A Mine. I Need An iPod!”?
Out of all the things they could send down a small hole to trapped miners, why an iPod?
BEACONSFIELD, Australia — Two Australian miners trapped for more than a week in a tiny cage more than a half mile underground were given iPods Wednesday to help them while away the hours as rescuers prepared to start drilling them an escape tunnel.
Did they send down a network cable so they could sync up with iTunes? Hopefully they sent headphones. Thanks Barn for the link.
I Think I’m A Bit Behind…
…I just made the mistake of looking at my RSS reader, which I’ve avoided for the last few weeks as I’ve just been too slammed at work. Amount of unread items? 21583.
I should probably clear some of this mess out … . Or just mark it all as read and call it good. That sounds like a better idea.