This one time, at band camp, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
Personally I don't see the need to shorten
OpenGuides URLs; they are a
fairly managable lenth at the moment and, moreover, convey useful
information (ie they are a fairly close representation of the page
name).
What's more, Google likes them. The Guardian and other Vignette sites
with their crappy 4534,3452342,34254.html type links just don't get
treated as well.
e.g.:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Barton+Swing+Aqueduct&btnG=G…
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Rev Simon Rumble <simon(a)rumble.net>
www.rumble.net
The Tourist Engineer
Geeks need vacations too.
http://engineer.openguides.org/
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange
apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But
if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange
these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
- George Bernard Shaw