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Archive | October, 2010

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Forty years ago people used to queue up to buy the latest edtion of the evening paper. In it would be the latest news and jobs .It would entertain you with features or tell you where to find a flat or see who Liz Taylor was married to. A couple of bob for a black and white sheet [...]

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Technology will free us all

Technology can be infuriating but it can also be a great liberator. Optician has recently designed a whole new suite of landing pages for its website and alongside the usual ones there are a few surprises. The pages we have readied for launch includes those for  contact lenses, dispensing optician, fashion etc. Where the web [...]

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Be careful what you search for

Some wag has pointed out the results you get if you put ABDO into Google. Top of the list is abdominal pain. Midly amsuing but this modern-day parlour game of what you get from a Google search is nothing new to the Optician office. Up until recently a search for the GOC called up the website [...]

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These coatings just keep on getting better

You wait for years for a decent coating then several come along at once. Just a few days ago I wrote about my experience with Pinfeel from Riviera Rimless . I majored on the look of the product but having worn it for a while the coating is the thing that really stands out as being [...]

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High top back drop

Silmo in Paris seems to be lingering longer in the memory than normal. The show is so huge it is always going to be impossible to get around to everyone and inevitably you miss some nuggets. So it was with the Converse luminous sunglasses. Sunglasses that glow in the dark may set off the obvious question [...]

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Hold on to your specs

Those of a literary bent will have long awaited the latest Jonathan Franzen novel. Events at the London launch party were to take a turn for the worse at the author’s specs were stolen and then held to ransom. I’m not sure if the ensuing drama was a publicity stunt or literary criticism but a report [...]

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Pinfeels so good

I readily accept that I am spolit when it comes to fab eyewear. I spend a lot of my time looking at, talking about and writing about eyewear and I get to try a lot of different eyewear out. Every now and again a piece comes along that really blows you away and I have to [...]

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