[geeks] New Intel Atom-based barebones system

[Joshua Boyd]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:32:29AM -0400, nate at portents.com wrote:
> > However, would you please consider putting a bookmarklet to a service
> > like Shorterlink.org (Shawn's), referurl.net (mine), or bit.ly (cool
> > name) in your bookmark bar and consider using it when posting such
> > longer URLs?
> 
> I actually prefer people just edit down the URL.  Places like Newegg and
> Amazon can have their URLs stripped way down to just a product ID string. 
> For Newegg, you just need "Item=", so when someone posts a Newegg URL they
> can shorten it to just this:
> 
> http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16856167032
> 
> Amazon's URLs can be shorted even more, just needing a "/dp/" followed by
> the product code, like this:
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0018RWCKA/

Thanks for the newegg tip.

For amazon and ebay I keep URL cleaner bookmarklets.

However, I didn't want to be too demanding, so I don't generally try to
ask people to think about shortening URLs all that much.

Maybe I should add amazon and ebay URL cleaning to ReferURL, so that
when you hit the referurl bookmarks on a URL like:
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Interviews-Exposed-Secrets-Programmer/dp/047012167X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213967482&sr=8-1

It gives to a choice of :
http://www.amazon.com/dp/047012167X/
or the usual:
http://referurl.net/337

As well as covering ebay and maybe some other sites.