On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 15:59:46 GMT, MiNE 109
wrote:

In article ,
dave weil wrote:


Of course there's always the tinyurl solution that I've seen used.
Maybe someone knows how to do this (I think there's a website that
changes it - of maybe it's shareware - I don't remember).

Anyone here ever use it?

I have. You paste in the long url and it gives you a short one, just as
you'd guess. Click thru on the website or copy and paste.

http://tinyurl.com/

The original example comes out as http://tinyurl.com/mcvw

and also:

http://makeashorterlink.com/index.php

Stephen

Thanks. Seems pretty tidy. I'll have to check it out.

BTW, as a side note, I can barely wait for Arnold to start claiming I
was tossed off of Comcast when, in a week or so, I switch to a
BellSouth DSL account.

The truth, that I decided to go Direct TV satellite TV as well as a
general dissatisfaction with Comcast's unresponsiveness in certain
areas and resultant price increases every year as well as the fact
that once my internet service will be unbundled it will therefore go
up again), is far less interesting. (How's *that* for a sentence? g)

The quality of the satellite is quite a bit better than Comcast cable
for the most part, which suffered from rasterization at times. One
problem is the "digitalization" of the picture on certain channels
like Bravo, which seem to use a lot of compression (not pixelation,
mind you). The problem is the banding that occurs with low contrast
images (much like too low resolution for image size in a digital
picture). The *cool* thing is the TIVO-esque receiver, which alllows
pausing of live programming, as well as about 35 hours of digital
on-demand recording. Pretty cool.

Now, the only thing is the weather issue. We'll see if it's onerous.
After all, we get some pretty heavy extended storms at times.
Hopefully this new improved dish will help a little...