Jonathan Tweed wrote:
Don't forget to also drop at least u, otherwise you might end up with offensive 
short codes.

You may have noticed that the programme ids don't have any vowels in them. This 
is deliberate ;-)

Sounds like an interesting little algorithmic challenge - what shortcode generation algorithm eliminates accidental real words while compromising optimally between simplicity and efficiency?

S
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