Surfing some websites, I stumbled upon the site for Agency Republic via ventilate.ca. This website is a prime example of why popup windows, married with a web browser that has built-in ad blocking capability, are becoming increasingly useless in terms of reaching a maximum audience.

I have popup windows disabled in my browser. When I visit a site that tries to launch a popup window, I receive an alert in the status bar - clicking on this alert gives me the option to add this site to a list which in future will be allowed to launch unrequested popups.

The problem with the Agency Republic site however, is that they redirect across three domain names in the process to launch the site in a popup. ie. agencyrepublic.com redirects to agencyrepublic.com.futuresite.register.com which in turn links to arepublic.com - all within a frameset. Which made it virtually impossible for me to view the site without viewing the source of the pages to find the URLs.

How annoying. If you need to create a popup window, at least do it properly.

More games to make your day at work even less productive: The Lego Treasure Hunt by Martin Sears, and Operation Slaps by NWYH.

I have, however, plenty of other personal projects I would rather start and finish before even considering taking it further. As you may have noticed, digicam.coza has undergone some (unfinished) major reconstructive surgery to bring it in line with this site.

On the topic of blogs, and having just visited two blogger-powered sites (namely taminthecity & rockit), there are two things that annoy me about blogger:
1. The archive/permalink naming convention: for example, wtf is the reasoning behind giving an anchor link the href of "/2003_06_01_archive.php#105463923212601364" !?
2. Popup windows aren't named exclusively: for example, visiting Tam's site, I clicked on a link to comment, but this page loaded in the same popup window in which I was still busy writing a comment for Nat's site.

And on that note, and having taken to heart Warrenski's feedback, I'll be making an effort to sound less condescending in future posts. ;]