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Anyone who tweets or sends URL’s in emails likes short URL’s for different reasons. Twitter users like ‘em because of the 140 char limit for tweets. You don’t want to use all 140 chars allocation on some hairy ugly URL–you also need a few to hint what it IS! Programmatic email senders like ‘em because they fit on one line. Is there an API to do this under program control?
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Are you confused about the financial crisis in the USA that threatens to cause a global recession? So was I until I saw this humorous, but spot on presentation of how it all works. It’s like a weak computer program. As long as a certain set of assumptions hold true, you don’t have to worry about processing certain errors. Once conditions change, you let the machinery run and all of a sudden things come out what they come out, and it’s not what you like. The false assumption was that real estate prices would continue to go up. While in general that is true, as Roy Rogers said, “They aint making any more of it”, and the same applies to petroleum, economic conditions can cause local drops in prices which are significant enough to cause repercussions.
The unfortunate end result is that the rich assholes still have their money in Cayman Islands accounts and it is us poor taxpayers, already flattened by the burden of the ridiculous war in Iraq, that will ultimately shoulder the brunt of this one too.
Listen to this post Feedburner will create an animated banner that cycles through the five most recent items on any RSS feed. I used it to create an IAB standard 468×60 banner promoting my tweets. There are excrutiatingly detailed instructions with screendumps over on my companion hub at hubpages (let them host the frakkin’ screendumps) but in a nutshell:
Here is my promotional banner for my twitter microblog:
Listen to this post I don’t usually embed YouTubes with no original content, but this one is just too funny.
It’s enough to make me stop blogging.
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A snapshot of my wsgrader badge
Listen to this post Quick fix eye-candy comic to placate you ….
from xkcd
Ho hummmmmm…… It’s high time I did another post in this sleepy little blog that only eight really cool people read regularly. There are over six billion people in the world, and 1 billion of them have internet. But there aren’t that many really cool people in the world, unfortunately. The other six that aren’t subscribers yet don’t know about me and I don’t know about them. (The number six is a mathematical estimate, based on my statistical analysis of general surfing behaviour courtesy of google.) I have no business writing how to increase your fan base, being how mine is so small. Duh.
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