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  • Walking Into Night

    Walking Into Night

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I was asked why I went to an ice rink, to stand around while people skated. The reason is that I wanted to go for my daily walk while the sun, or at least daylight, was still around. If I had set off later, then I would have been caught by…

  • The Demise of Shortened Google Links

    The Demise of Shortened Google Links

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesNext year [all goo.gl shortened links will be dead due to the planned obscolence of hyperlinks](https://9to5google.com/2024/07/18/googl-links/). Any website, blog, or social media site that used Goo.gl shortened links will find that their links are worthless from that point on. ## The SMS Era on Twitter URL shorteners thrived for a while because…