“!http://www.zoinger.com/img/old_computer_thumb.jpg! (The C2-4P)”:http://www.zoinger.com/img/old_computer.jpg

More “here”:http://computer_collector.tripod.com/vintagecomputers/computeradsindex.html

I really hated what my “Trackback”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackback URL used to look like. I mean… it looked like an old “Compuserve”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe email address. Something like @su1298432.online.us.com@. “Fugly”:http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fugly&r=f.

I fixed this by creating a new sub-domain on my “host (1and1)”:http://www.1and1.com’s control panel for domains and made…

bq. @trackback.zoinger.com@ **++=++** @su1298432.online.ugly.url@

and changed the pointer to the @GIPath@ in the @MT.cfg@ file to @trackback.zoinger.com@.

However, before I came up with this solution, I had thought I had read that 1and1 didn’t support sub-domains (obviously, I was wrong). In trying to come up with a work around, I ran into this gem of a “post(mar.anomy.net/entry/2003/06/22/17.15.00/)”:http://mar.anomy.net/entry/2003/06/22/17.15.00/ by “Már Örlygsson”:http://mar.anomy.net/. The how-to on future-proofing your URLs in “Movable Type”:http://www.movabletype.org. His post is filed under a really trick “URL (mar.anomy.net/entry/2003/06/22/17.15.00/)”:http://mar.anomy.net/entry/2003/06/22/17.15.00/ (mouse over the link to check out a future-proofed URL). I’ve implemented a bunch of the URL future-proofing discussed in this post to my site. I like it.

Contained within Már’ post, is a reference to the most excellent “Brad Choate”:http://bradchoate.com/ and his “Regex”:http://bradchoate.com/weblog/2002/07/27/mtregex plugin. You have to download the file and read the @readme.txt@ file if you want to know what Regex does (”here”:http://www.zoinger.com/files/regex_readme.txt’s a link to a local copy of the @readme.txt@ file for version 1.61). I’ll paraphrase a bit from the @readme.txt@ too:

@@

Here’s an example (place at the top of your template):

@s|:+D||g@

The above will replace all occurrences of :+D with an @IMG@ tag that displays a smiley.gif instead.

p. @@

So, I guess you might be wondering what the previous post, “test”:http://www.zoinger.com/archives/2005/02/07/20.46.51/ was about? I was testing out this Regex substitution. I made an entry that said nothing but :+D in the body, and it rendered as the smiley image. Cool… not the smiley… the fact that you can define your own substitution elements. Gotta work on some of these.

_And I obviously got my domain transfered from Yahoo! to 1and1 to fix what I was bitching about “here”:http://www.zoinger.com/archives/2005/01/31/20.40.10/ ._

!http://www.zoinger.com/img/smiley.jpg!