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Archive | November, 2010

You’ve never had it so good

  Lord Young got into a bit of hot water last week with his repeat of Harold MacMillan’s famous phrase but the question still hangs in the air for optics. While most of the public sector has put its tin hat on and braced itself for impact optometry seems to have fared fairly well.   [...]

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For triathlon read pasadoble

It’s been a funny old close to the year. This is nornally the time of year I am recruiting my team for next years sporting challenge. But this year  I seem to have found then lost a team. The half Ironman, the Ironman and then the Alpe d’Huez triathlon seem to have done everyone in. [...]

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Optical continuity on the box

Mrs Optician editor’s Sunday evenings will never be the same again, well not until the next series of the ITV drama series Downton Abbey  which came to an end on Sunday.   The final episode offered some great  speculative fodder for  optical film continuity nerds. Mrs Patmore, the cook (left), had been struggling all series with [...]

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Optical continuity on the box

Mrs Optician editor’s Sunday evenings will never be the same again, well not until the next series of the ITV drama series Downton Abbey  which came to an end on Sunday.   The final episode offered some great  speculative fodder for  optical film continuity nerds. Mrs Patmore, the cook (left), had been struggling all series with [...]

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Step away from the sparkler

I was always a big fan of Bonfire night when I was a kid. One year I even managed to make a guy, raise some money and spend it on fireworks bought from the local bike shop. I got some bangers and a roman candle, the guy didn’t want to sell us a rocket and [...]

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Blogger, blog thyself

I’ve been playing with the Optician website again. As part of the development I have  been on the lookout for bloggers to blog about different parts of the profession and industry. I’ve cast the net far and wide but no one seems to know anyone who blogs about optics. Most of those I have asked [...]

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The reluctant presbyope society

Optician has a disproportionate number of 50 somethings and until recently none of them were wearing progressive lenses. When the opportunity to  get first hand experience of progressive lenses presented itself it fell to our production editor to take on the challenge. He’s the guy who sits behind a giant screen most of the day but [...]

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