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http://nboat.tk

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Well, that didn’t take long, and I’ve got a new short URL … http://nboat.tk though I guess it needs visiting several times to keep it (or pay for it!). I could have had a character shorter, but “nboat” seems recognisable as “narrowboat”.
Mind you, http://gbut.tk is still free if a certain other blogger is interested [...]

URL a short one!

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Over at GrannyButtons powerblog, Andrew has beenlooking at short URL redirections and got
www.grannybuttons.com = http://short.to/89
Hmm, well there seem to be a few short redirection domains out there. http://is.gd so 5 as opposed to 8 characters in the full domain. So giving it a go I get …
http://www.narrowboat.org.uk/ = http://is.gd/1GFz
though a longer final part [...]

Oops all quiet

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Ooo eck, looks like I’ve been a bit quiet for a while. Had a busy few months. I went to Andorra for a week and captured some stuff for time lapsing – though the Customs on the border made me delete frames taken inside the border station! Ah that was when I was leaving the [...]