Narrowboat

Some people are really keen on collecting domain names, some even make a profitable enterprise out of it, others don’t get what all the fuss is about. Back in the day when I was looking to start up this blog I was looking for a domain - well initially I had it on a free [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Looking at the website for Stage6, the DivX video site, they’ve closed it down, so looks like Youtube and Blip.tv for my video’s now

I have been using Dr.DivX the free open source software to create the final versions of my Time Lapse Cruise videos to upload to stage6.com. Now whilst there is a DivX Pro out there I never bothered buying it, since Dr.DivX is fine. It normally costs $20, but for a limited time the folks at [...]