There's a new version of Shorten out. I've fixed some features and started to add others.

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Within the last month or so, some of the popular URL shortening services, like TinyURL and Bit.ly, have added an extra number to their hashes in URLs produced. (As an aside, URL shortening services work by taking a long URL, like http://blog.pilsch.com/past/2009/5/20/shout_out_for_todd_mays_gille_deleuze_an_introduction_/ and returns a URL like http://tinyurl.com/q89t3d that can be used on services like Twitter to save the precious characters). Anyway, with the proliferation of Twitter, these URL services have become very popular and have started to increase in length (I'll explain why later). So, figuring it couldn't possible be that hard, I wrote my own.

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In about two minutes, I just implemented a deletion feature into this blog software. It took about that long to convert from Atom to RSS for feed syndication. Awesome.

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