Richard Farrar’s Blog

While the term URL may not be familiar to everyone, the chances are that you use them everyday without knowing, as a URL is essentially just a web address. But what do all the different parts of a URL actually mean?

URLs are things we use every day in our general surfing of the web, but they are something that many of us will never stop to think about too much.

So partly in response to a request left in a comment from a reader, Joebunny, and partly as a prelude to a forthcoming post that will require a general understanding of URLs, I hope to explain, without going into too much detail, what a URL is all about.

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Most of us make fundamental decisions in life based on trying to achieve a single fixed goal, but if you’re prepared to look a little further unexpected benefits can often be found.

Any decision or choice you make in life is likely to have direct and indirect consequences. In making your decision your are going to weigh up the pros and and cons of the obvious and predictable consequences. However, there will always be something you hadn’t thought of, that with a little work or change of attitude, may be turned to your benefit.

These secondary or tangential benefits are not necessarily be monetary and may present themselves in various guises that aren’t immediately obvious. Some you will need to seek out, others are already there, but perhaps you just didn’t see them as such.

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While the terms mono and stereo are probably familiar to most people, the term joint stereo is certainly much less common. So when is stereo not stereo?

Most of the music that you listen to today is likely to have been recorded and designed for playback on a stereo system, either through a pair of headphones or a pair of speakers. Even very cheap portable systems nowadays are just as likely to include two speakers for stereo playback as they are a single one.

So if the days of mono systems are all but over, what’s this joint stereo nonsense all about? Is this a retrograde step or something altogether more cunning?

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