Comments on: Can You Crack “Arecibo ASCII”? http://hostilefork.com/2008/10/20/can-you-crack-arecibo-ascii/ a disgruntled developer taking a stand in the information multiverse Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:40:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Lloyd Budd http://hostilefork.com/2008/10/20/can-you-crack-arecibo-ascii/#comment-890 Lloyd Budd Sat, 23 May 2009 18:58:23 +0000 http://hostilefork.com/?p=96#comment-890 Totally tangential, > On the one hand, you’ve lost the fluidity to make changes—if the URL for this > article had been http://hostilefork.com/2008/10/20/96/ then I can fix typos > without breaking links (what if I’d spelled “arecibo” wrong and wanted to fix it?) WordPress maintains a list of previous URLs for an article so updating URLS don't break the old ones. It's time for a WordPress upgrade - WP 2.7.1 tho we have 2.8 beta 2 too. (Drink me! Delete me!) Totally tangential,

> On the one hand, you’ve lost the fluidity to make changes—if the URL for this
> article had been http://hostilefork.com/2008/10/20/96/ then I can fix typos
> without breaking links (what if I’d spelled “arecibo” wrong and wanted to fix it?)

WordPress maintains a list of previous URLs for an article so updating URLS don’t break the old ones.

It’s time for a WordPress upgrade - WP 2.7.1 tho we have 2.8 beta 2 too.

(Drink me! Delete me!)

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