As described on Apache Website:
“The great thing about mod_rewrite is it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail. The downside to mod_rewrite is that it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail.”
— Brian Behlendorf
Apache Group

The URLs like /blah/english/category2/view2 look some much nicer than /blah/script.xxx?category=2&view=2&lang=en !

By the way, I got about 2000 hits this month on this page so if you are a regular reader, I’d be glad if you could comment a hello for example, you do not need to register to post. Thus, I’ll have an idea if someone’s reading this text or only bots are indexing it… Am I wasting my time typing this? To finish, I have an idea for this blog’s design, thanks to oswd!