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So I was on TV today (red shirt). Caitlin and I went to the recording of In Search of The Partridge Family because her cousin, Keaton Savage, is a finalist for the part of Danny. It was alright after we got out of the sun.

We went out for a late lunch after to a chinese restaurant on Sunset. I saw an Enzo drive by outside the window.

I’m reading Hegel’s Philosophy of Right for philisophy. Need to nail down the preface tonight.

I am so tired of web sites serving up absolute garbage in their URIs. I recently found this when browsing directly to a simple page on hp.com:

http://www.shopping.hp.com/cgi-bin/hpdirect/shopping/scripts/product_detail/product_detail_view.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0001405636.1096269721@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccciadcmjemgmgkcfngcfkmdflldfjl.0&landing=printers&category=all_in_ones&subcat1=family&product_code=Q1662A%23ABA&catLevel=3M

↑ Nice job royally screwing that up, IE. Get Firefox. ↑

Seriously, what is that URI?

It should be very simply hp.com/printers/all-in-one/psc1210. That is a clean semantic representation of the resource being accessed as indicated by their site structure.

There are a few good reads on this topic:

• Cool URIs Don’t Change – note the clean URI.
• URL as UI – although he doesn’t follow the advice about dropping the file extension (.html), which I think is a crucial part of it.
• Compound Domain Names – a somewhat related and interesting read. Down with “www”!

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