Target=_blank

One of my annoyances about live journal is that you do not get the option to set a link to open a new window. So when you are writing a post, here is how you can do that, so you can go right back where you left off before you clicked the link.

use target=_top in your code

a href="http://yourlinkhere.com"target=_blank

Then use your close statement.

Just a tip for ya.