[URL shorteners]        25/08/2014
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Publicly available ones are:
v.gd   is.gd    po.st    bit.ly    tinyurl.com
The advantage of the first two of these is that with the addition of a trailing hyphen (-), you are taken to a confirmtion screen which
ensures you are in the right place e.g. http://is.gd/abswork-  Look at http://kesdon.eu/url or http://mhart.eu/url

However, it was quite easy to write a 'domestic' url shortener using .htaccess directives (example below)
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Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewriterule ^url$ http://mch-design.org.uk/po-st.html$1 [r=301,nc]
rewriterule ^short$ http://mch-design.org.uk/short_url.html$1 [r=301,nc]
rewriterule ^BMI$ http://health.mch-net.info/workout.html$1 [r=301,nc]
rewriterule ^WEBCOL$ http://mch-design.org.uk/web-table.html$1 [r=301,nc]
rewriterule ^mch$ http://m-hart.com$1 [r=301,nc]
rewriterule ^pubs http://mh-lectures.co.uk/pubs/papers.html
rewriterule ^fence http://kesdon.co.uk/fence
rewriterule ^help http://kesdon.net/urllist.html

# Previous more comprehensive version
# Options +FollowSymlinks
# RewriteEngine on
# rewriterule ^url(.*)$ http://mch-design.org.uk/po-st.html$1 [r=302,nc]
# rewriterule ^short(.*)$ http://mch-design.org.uk/short_url.html$1 [r=302,nc]
# rewriterule ^BMI(.*)$ http://health.mch-net.info/workout.html$1 [r=302,nc]
# rewriterule ^WEBCOL(.*)$ http://mch-design.org.uk/web-table.html$1 [r,nc]
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The two 'domestic' ones are:
F:\BackupDriveH\kesdon\toolkit\kesdon-eu.html   {on the web at http://kesdon.info/toolkit with the name http://kesdon.eu & http://kesdon.net
F:\BackupDriveH\statstore\mhart-eu\mhart-eu.html {on the web at http://mch-net.info/mhart-eu with the name http://mhart.eu