Twitter & TinyURL's

I've become a bit obsessed with blogging here lately. This seems to be my personality as some of my interest seem to eb and flow in how much time I dedicate to them. Also technology as a whole seems to amaze me a little more everyday. I recently created a twitter account and kept seeing these links named www.tinyurl.com/xxxxxxx or whatever and I had no idea how they did that so I did some research. My favorite search engine, next to google, is wikipedia and I could get lost on this sight for hours. Just ask my wife. Anyways wikipedia's definition is as follows:

http://tinyurl.com/dmsfm


But if you don't wanna read all that it basically turns any web address into a short link to get you to the same place. TinyURL's help to turn web address that look like this:

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?ovi=1&mqmap.x=300&mqmap.y=75&mapdata=%252KZmeiIh6N%2bIgpXRP3bylMaN0O4z8OOUkZWYe7NRH6ldDN96YFTIUmSH3Q6OzE5XVqcuc5zb%252fY5wy1MZwTnT2pu%252bNMjOjsHjvNlygTRMzqazPStrN%252f1YzA0oWEWLwkHdhVHeG9sG6cMrfXNJKHY6fML4o6Nb0SeQm75ET9jAjKelrmqBCNta%252bsKC9n8jslz%252fo188N4g3BvAJYuzx8J8r%252f1fPFWkPYg%252bT9Su5KoQ9YpNSj%252bmo0h0aEK%252bofj3f6vCP

into this:

http://tinyurl.com/6

I just thought it was neat and thought I'd share that with you