Shorty is self-hosted alternative to URL shortening services like TinyURL.

I do use TinyURL quite often and think it’s a brilliant tool that offers more then enough in the gender of short URL services. But since I am looking into extending this blog with a ’sidenote/linkroll’ thinky, and can see Shorty being quite a nice and useful little tool taking part in that, I will try it out.

When I was about to install Shorty, I had problem coming up with a good name of the subdirectory where to install it (no shorty wasn’t good enough).

www.nuzzaci.co.uk/2/
www.nuzzaci.co.uk/-y/
www.nuzzaci.co.uk/out/
www.nuzzaci.co.uk/shorty/
www.nuzzaci.co.uk/external/
www.nuzzaci.co.uk/terminal5/

After a few minutes of thinking, I think I came up with probably the best name ever on a subdirectory on a .co.uk domain (not the best name for the service, just in general).

www.nuzzaci.co.uk/ulele/

For a hint, follow this link