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Top 10 Things Not To Do with Links

“Hyperlinks” are probably the single most important thing on the World Wide Web. They are, after all, what the “web” is woven from; they are what makes it something more than the document retrieval systems that came before.

And yet, some people seem to do their utmost to make all the hyperlinks in their documents entirely useless. Here are my Top 10 Things Not To Do with Links…

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Watching Le Tour on ITV. Or trying to.

I’m a bit of an annual cycling fan – that is, I get really into the Tour de France every summer, and barely follow the sport at all the rest of the year. It’s a bit like only watching Tennis when Wimbledon’s on, or football when it’s the World Cup. Which, come to think of it, I do a bit too – but not as regularly.

Now, part of this is because the Tour de France is the only professional cycling race that’s generally covered on “mainstream” TV – I’ve never had the “luxury” of Eurosport. A few years ago, even that was in doubt, with Channel 4 suddenly dumping the rights, and ITV rather half-heartedly taking them over. Which brings me to this year’s “good news, bad news” story.