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Archive | July, 2010

Be careful what you put online

Hot on the heels of the news that burglars are using social media networking site like Facebook and Twitter to target housholds. It seems that posting the wrong thing online could also hamper your chances of landing a job. A report from the US found that a massive seven out of ten employers had rejected [...]

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It’s publishing Jim but not as we know it

I’ve nearly always worked on weekly magazines so publishing a book is a bit of a culture shock. But that is excatly what Optician has done. I now have in my hand a lovely little book on Glaucoma based on the recent series and featuring all of the latest advice from NICE. As a weekly [...]

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High class assault on optics

Now you expect it from the Daily Mail but not the Torygraph.There again perhaps it is a sign of the times but on Tuesday the Telegraph published  5 ways to…Save money on your eye care.   Cue the top 40 hit parade music.   Coming in at number one  is get a free or cheap [...]

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Driving change

I used to know a really good European joke about what if the French cooked and made love like they drive. It ran through all the nationalities and as ever the UK was the butt of the joke. These days of course we  are all European so it’s only fitting that the heads of all of [...]

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Breakfast in Worthing

    Readers of my other blog will be familiar with my sporting exploits but to cheer everyone up post World Cup and post Wimbledon I thought I would share this one with you.   The most noteable optometric facts are Optician Son #2 wore Maui Jims while I opted for Adidas  Adavista glazed with Rupp = Hubrack [...]

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Plus ca change

It’s surprising what you find down the back of the drawers when you move. Someone has just handed me a copy of Optician ( and the photographic trade journal as it was known) from March 22 1912. One of the largest articles is a report on the seventh meeting of the Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians [...]

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