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Archive | January, 2011

Blogger blog thyself

I’ve been so busy trying to recruit bloggers for opticianspace I haven’t had time to blog myself. I have always been surpised by the lack of blogger in optics but there is so much to say. Dispensing Opticians can now enjoy the thoughts of Diponio in the dispensing blog. For those interested in contact lenses why [...]

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To all those who comment, I salute you

If you have commented on this site recently and have not seen your comment publish I can only apologise. Opticanonline.net suffered from the modern scourge of spam and of last this has become overwhelming. I have now had some of the settings on the site changed to filter it out. The problem is this is rather [...]

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Eyeballing vodka a cautionary tale

    The College of Optometrists’ Dr Cindy Tromans had her fifteen minutes of fame earlier this week on the BBC’s expose of the craze of eyeballing vodka, not looking at it in Tescos but pouring it in your eye[ didn't that start several years ago??]. Yes it did start several years ago and even Optician has written [...]

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Marching on London

No fire extinguishers were thrown from the rooftops or hunger strikers cut down by mounted policemen but there was a distictly Jarrow march feel to optics this week.   Heading down from Scotland with a weighty petition in his hand was online retailer Ewan McFarlane and his campaign for opticians to give people their PDs.He had travelled [...]

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An optical work of art

Norville recently sent me the results of a project it has been working on to provide Rx lenses for the nannini Swing sports frame. The project may not result in a product for sale but the results are stunning from an optical lens manufacturing proint of view . Having been given the opportunity to try the [...]

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Lost in transition

I remember my schooldays. The clattering of feet in the corridor, the smell of sick and sawdust and the thwack of cane on on worsted trousers.  These days of course it’s all different. The teachers try and be friends to the kids and the kids think they should have some say in how they are taught [...]

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