2009
Conversation with Mazie…
Flight Control for the iPhone is still fun. And addictive!
Mentioned my Twitter info at the end of a talk I gave today. Looks like some picked up my Tweets. :-)
Amazon Elastic MapReduce looks interesting. Opens up some new solution paths!
Friendly Social URLs Using Redirects
Have you ever thought it would be nice to be able to easily give someone the URL to your Facebook profile? It’s not easy with the id number URL that Facebook uses. Just try saying “go to facebook dot com slash profile dot php question mark id equals six hundred and five million seven hundred seventy six thousand fifty seven”. Bzzzt, nope. Even something as easy as a custom URL for LinkedIn can be hard to remember. It hit me the other day that there is a really easy solution to this!
If you have your own domain name, and host the DNS somewhere, you are almost guaranteed to be able to easily create URL redirects. I use Namecheap and it is very easy to do. I created these URL redirects to make it a lot easier to tell people where to find me!
| Friendly | Destination |
|---|---|
| facebook.thingelstad.com | www.facebook.com/profile.p… |
| flickr.thingelstad.com | www.flickr.com/photos/jt… |
| linkedin.thingelstad.com | www.linkedin.com/in/jthing… |
| reader.thingelstad.com | www.google.com/reader/sh… |
| twitter.thingelstad.com | twitter.com/thingles |
It’s so much easier to say “Just go to flickr.thingelstad.com” to see my pictures on Flickr! Or “go to facebook.thingelstad.com”. Even Twitter allows people to just know my name, and not need to remember my Twitter username, and just go to twitter.thingelstad.com!
Nice huh? I like it.
Installers are evil. I have no idea what voodoo they do, and I’m sure there is voodoo. Everything should be drag & drop install.
I thought I had IE8 installed but now Windows Update has insisted on uninstalling whatever I had, rebooting, and installing IE8. Sigh…
Just ordered a Kindle 2. It’s time.
Flight Control - Great iPhone Game
This last weekend I grabbed a copy of Flight Control for my iPhone. It looked like the kind of game that I can get into. I like puzzle style games and have an affinity to 2D-gaming over 3D-gaming. I was pretty much immediately hooked.
The premise of Flight Control is simple. You have a top-down perspective of a landing field and you have to draw flight paths with your finger for each plane to land. There are different types of planes that fly at different speeds. Over time, the planes come faster and faster.
The game is addictive. I’ve now got a high score of 57 but am stumped how you get much past that.
Rule #78 for Bloggers: Never post about not posting for oh so long.