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Yes, this IS getting boring

Upgraded most of the short linking I’ve been doing outside wordpress/la-petite-url to use yourls; except, of course, that a quick bit of sql didn’t translate everything. The MySQL insert into yourls_url select key1, target, timestamp(concat(year, ‘-’, month, ‘-’,day, ‘ 12:00:00′)), … Continue reading

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“Fix”ing WordPress database tables

After restoring tables from a WP mu backup (an incomplete one as it turned out) various issues presented themselves, not least an inability to submit posts (HTTP 500 not informative). A little searching revealed a likely cause (http://discuss.joyent.com/viewtopic.php?id=19116): missing auto_increment … Continue reading

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Short Links and IDNs : Part Deux

This will be part two of Short Links, IDNs and (WordPress). lessn and shorty – standalone host-your-own short-url services http://get-shorty.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=21 http://ƨ.ws/shorty http://www.subtraction.com/2006/01/17/get-shorty http://www.subtraction.com/2006/08/24/announcing-s lessn is very simple, you get one username / password and next to no interface – does … Continue reading

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Short Links, IDNs (and WordPress)

Having been caught up in the wheels of the bandwagon, I’ve been playing with short link generators that you self–host. Disconnected thoughts: been playing with short url technologies, WordPress and the inevitable short domain names, IDNs that look cool / … Continue reading

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