Love this site: www.tinyurl.com
You paste one of those 8,000-character URLs you get when you're shopping online or perusing a database-driven website into the field on the homepage and it gives you a much shorter Web address ... much easier for purposes of sharing links with friends.
For example, the link to Nigella Lawson's recipe for Spaghetti alla Carbonara is made much shorter thanks to TinyURL.
Similarly, I can send you to this link for gorgeous holiday wrap from Paper Source or my dream bathroom with tiny URLs instead of super-long ones.
It's perfect for sending links to your sweetie to the stuff you want for Xmas. Hint hint. ;-)
