Posted by: Dale Franks on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 Billy Beck, for what he assures us are very good reasons, chose the URL "http://www.two––four.net" as his domain name. That makes his blog URL "http://www.two––four.net/weblog.php". Billy should be proud. As far as I know, his URL is the only one in the world that uses a double dash as part of the domain name. The trouble that causes, for us here, at least, is that I intentionally programmed .Blog to transform the text "––" into "—", so that an M-Dash character is used for text. In common usage, double dashes stand for an M-Dash character. And, this also prevents the two dashes in a double-dash from appearing on two separate lines of text, due to unfortunate line breaks. Unfortunately, Billy has used the double dash as part of his URL, which causes no end of trouble when linking to his weblog, since .Blog converts the charatcers to an "—". Fortunately, tinyurl.com has a solution. From now on, any links to Billy's weblog main page—which you should be reading, by the way—should be written as "http://tinyurl.com/9f8mf". In case you didn't know about it, TinyURl.Com is a fantasically useful online service that contracts inconvenient URLS, such as:  Into much more convenient URLs, like "http://tinyurl.com/z7842". I recommend it highly. |
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