Hints to Bloggers on the Perils of Posting Urls WCHS-TV, fine station that it is, does not use .urls that are friendly to we bloggers (or, if you are Irish and small in stature that would be 'wee bloggers' to you). Their .urls are not fixed to a specific story; it is instead, relative to a position on their web page for a lead story (I guess). Not knowing this, a few blogs below, I had merely written the word, "GOOD!" with an underlying .url that would take the reader to a weekend story about an officer of the law receiving a harsh sentence for child abuse and incest. My reaction was a simple, "GOOD!". Then you choose to read the story. Well, with a 'relative url' the story underlying my post kept changing as WCHS kept updating their web site. This can be amusing, or hurtful, I suppose to the families of victims, when the underlying story keeps changing.

Are you too young to remember Johnny Carson's character, Karnack the Magnificent? Karnack devines the answer to a question before it is asked. So, I've been playing a silent game of Karnack with the WCHS web page. I hit Gundovald's entry of

"GOOD!" and then see what the question is, based on the ever changing WCHS's headline.

Let Gundovald show you how a simple .url has worked "GOOD" or "GOOD!" or "GOOD!" And try the other "Good's" in the above text. Today they each have a relative unique url. But try again tomorrow or the next day and other stories will be assigned to their naming convention. Do you get my drift? You computer scientists and techies know all of this all ready. Know your answer before you hear the question, "Good!" Night Johnny, wherever you are!