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URL Envy

For ages I've been envious of many other bloggers' set-ups, but especially the nice friendly URL schemes that a lot of other people now use. So, starting from today, my website is at alastairs-place.net, rather than the previous www.alastairs-place.net, and you can navigate the articles using the form /yyyy/mm/article_name, or get an index of all of the articles for a given month with /yyyy/mm.

For instance, this article is http://alastairs-place.net/2006/07/url_envy.

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Since you've just made this change, consider swapping out the underscores for dashes. Google prefers it:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores/

(I use underscores, and am planning to switch+redirect when I next rewrite the homepage.)

Good point; I remember reading about this somewhere.

I'm also working on a new design for my blog to replace the default template (which, in turn, replaced a previous custom design that was broken by the MT 3.2 upgrade).

I'm not sure I like any of the dashify scripts I found for MT, none of which seem to adequately deal with entities and Unicode (both which I'm quite fond of using here and there), so I might write my own…

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