Cruft-free URLs in Movable Type [diveintomark]
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How to recognize a Weblog tool by its permalinks

Been reading these articles about reducing cruft, or unnecessary info, in urls. Now, my permanent urls of the form milov.nl/entry/123 already were quite short, but then I got to thinking: do I really need that obvious /entry bit in there? So I wrote an .htaccess rule to enable permalinks of the amazingly compact form milov.nl/123, which is now the default (the old syntax still works as well, of course).