ANNOUNCEMENT: BAD meeting 2004-06-16

Vineet Kumar vineet@doorstop.net
Sat, 29 May 2004 13:56:22 -0700


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* Nick Moffitt (nick@zork.net) [040529 12:48]:
> begin  Vineet Kumar  quotation:
> > [1] http://yp.yahoo.com/py/ypMap.py?Pyt=3DTyp&tuid=3D9968063&ck=3D12032=
73056&tab=3DB2C&tcat=3D8903827&city=3DBerkeley&state=3DCA&zip=3D94707-2741&=
country=3Dus&msa=3D5775&cs=3D9&ed=3DH74b3a160SyJdMmhdNPucWP8TO3zJplWA56Nc0j=
Q2JTt.z6rpJyd0JNVMK.g1AlrCSL_Eaa7IA--&stat=3D:pos:1:regular:regT:20:fbT:0
>=20
> Eugh.  WHat a huge ugly URL.

Yes, I had started to cut off some of the gibberish, but ended up
sacrificing the parts that included info about Oscar's Hot Dogs itself.

>     http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?addr=3D1890+shattuck&csz=3Dberkeley,=
ca
>=20
> Much nicer, and you can tell the address by the actual URL itself.

That is much nicer.  I also found out it was easier than I thought to
shorten the URL and still maintain the restaurant reference:

http://yp.yahoo.com/py/ypMap.py?tuid=3D9968063

good times,
Vineet
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"Computer Science is no more about computers
than astronomy is about telescopes."  -- E.W. Dijkstra

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