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One of the problems I’ve always had with URLs is, well, they’re hard to say or hard to remember. Every domain name I’ve registered has had as its basic premise either ease of typing or memorability. I hate that my school (and work) TLD (top-level domain) is something as horridly long as “washington.edu”, and I’m driven to tears every time I have to type in a subdomain of that TLD. I have even purchased domain names for some of the pages on that domain because I hate typing them out so much.

Anything that contributes to this madness drives me to insanity.

This is 2007. We have CNAMES and mod-rewrite and all sorts of fun things that help users with URLs. You do not need the “www” in front of a URL. It’s almost as absurd as the “http://”. There are occasional exceptions, but 99% of the time, the sites are set up to automatically redirect to the proper page, and the user never even sees it.

So please, do your users (and me) a favor, and stop advertising your site with the darn w-w-w…

Welcome to my new blog. The name, “$ parsed | out.com“, is supposed to be a bit of a pun and a bit of a (BaSH) code joke, à la:

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(Okay, so that was just an excuse for me to try out my syntax highlighter plugin. :) I decided that it was better than “allparsedout.com” and “implicitlydiffed.com”, which I also registered. I’ve had this domain for a while and have finally gotten around to setting up a blog on it. For now it’s running on Wordpress, which makes me a little nervous, but it’s the best of the free blog systems I looked at. And it’s better than me spending six weeks writing my own.

Hopefully I’ll write in this more often than I do in my other blog-like things…

More to come soon.