I know I’ve changed my permalinks before and really don’t like changing them at all, but today I finally got around to doing the work that allows them to be the way I want them to be.
They no longer have crufty parts, and each permalink goes to a page with that item and that item alone (previously it was a page containing any items from that day). So they’re now in the form: /Archives/YEAR/MONTH/DAY/TITLE. No closing extensions, no ids.
And since I couldn’t have my permalinks breaking, all previous forms of permalink still work and should continue to do so. Real content coming later, perhaps.