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23.06.2004 It's growing on me…
Ok, ok… I take back what I said about the cat. After nearly a week living together he's growing on me. Despite the scratchy claws and the fact he insists on attacking my feet when I'm trying to sleep he's really quite cute. I'm not saying *all* cats are nice, because like dogs, plenty of them are horrid, but this particular cat isn't all bad. While I'm here, here's a message to email marketers. If your going to send me a newsletter with hyperlinks to articles on the web for the love of god please set the target of the link to “_blank”.
I'm the kind of person who always has multiple instances of my web browser open. I'll have a website open in one, my webmail account in another and my CMS system in another, MySQL admin in another and so on and so forth. So I'll be working away and the helpful email notification icon appears in the bottom right of my screen, I'm an email addict and can't help but check it out, so I take a look. It's a newsletter from the good folks at sitepoint.com and theres a nice link to an article on their site. “click here to read more” it says. So I do, and lo and behold 5 minutes work in my CMS gone in a second.
Some people will say it's my fault for not saving my work, they're not wrong, but if publishers just spend a few minutes getting their links to open in a new window I wouldn't have the problem any more. It's not a lot to ask for… is it?
Coincidently, somewhere hidden away in the dark recesses of Outlook Express there is an option to open all links in new windows, why the boffins at Microsoft decided not to include it in Outlook XP is beyond me. Silly Boffins.
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