waving android

I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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I was just introduced to shorl.com, yet another URL shortening service.

July 10th, 2003

I was just introduced to shorl.com,
yet another URL shortening service. But they have a very interesting
way to try to make the shortened URL memorable, which they call koremutake.

I wrote a (very) quick and (equally) dirty Python module to translate
koremutake: koremutake.py.
It can be imported as a module, or used as a shell tool:

Basic usage:

$ koremutake.py -k "koremutake"
'C4N%
$ koremutake.py -b "'C4N%"
koremutake

It can be used as a pipe, too (in this example it is shown
to be fully reversible):

$ koremutake.py -b | koremutake.py -k
hello world
hello world

How, um … useful!

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