Reader Tips

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1. My eye strain tips…
   1) Pick your LCD monitor with the resolution in mind…most 17″ monitors have the same resolution as the 19″ monitors, so on the 19″, everything is bigger and easier to see. Going to a 20″ (not widescreen) gives you more desktop, but smaller text than the 19″ monitor because of higher resolution. (Without playing with settings for font sizes, etc.) Use a dual monitor setup if you need more desktop space.
   2) I like full-spectrum fluorescent lighting for detail work (reading fine print)…makes reading easier I find, much less fatiguing on eyes. Might be good for detailed artwork…
   3) Antihistamine eye drops
   4) Ice cubes wrapped in moist facecloth, lie down and put ice cubes on eyeballs. With your eyes shut. Relax until your eyes feel better and your neck is soggy and cold.
   5) Take a nap!
   6) Sans-serif (like Arial) fonts are better for on monitors, serif fonts (like Times New Roman) are better for hardcopies. Reformat SDA as such. 😉
   I would REALLY suggest #2, relatively cheap, and makes a big difference in the amount of eyestrain I experience.

2. A lot of eye strain in cities like Bejing, Mexico City and Vancouver is caused by pollution.
   This helps. . .
   http://gwiz.myfastforum.org/about1191.html
   Fooling with global warming and cooling can come later, when we can all breath better. = TG

3. CNews Poll: Brenda Martin
   Brenda Martin
   is an innocent victim of circumstances. 10%
   is guilty of a minor crime and should be sent home. 13%
   is guilty and took her chances with a foreign legal system. 53%
   is one of many people being unjustly imprisoned in Mexico. 24%
   Total Votes for this Question: 1520

4. “Reuters Fakes Another Photo
   Telegraph UK
   The story is about climate change, and when I saw the accompanying photo of a fish lying at the bottom of a dried lake, I immediately screamed fake. Take a look, there’s no way the buzzards or other predators wouldn’t have picked it clean in the time it took for the lake to evaporate.”
   http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005897/posts
   “Climate change ‘may put world at war’
   By Charles Clover, Environment Editor”
   http://tinyurl.com/4puefo (telegraph)
   (Reuters provided fishy dead pic photo.)

5. Librano$* have friend$ in low place$. Ask Ad$cam ex-PM Martin, Jr.
   …-
   “[Conservative]Immigration minister gets extra protection after threats escalate”
   http://tinyurl.com/5rj5tr
   Sample From Comments: ” Stan L from Canada writes: As much as I think the Conservatives are pretty much tools….there is no excuse whatsoever for threats of this nature.”
   …-
   *”Martin backs up Sgro amid stripper scandal
   Updated Sun. Nov. 28 2004 7:56 AM ET”
   “”No … on both counts,” Martin said. “I’m very confident in the minister of immigration.””
   http://tinyurl.com/5q8dj9 (ctv)

6. It is potable water we are going to have heated conflict over.
   A McGill educated scientist came up with methods he patented to transform waste water to safe water.
   He could have done the world a favour and put his patents in the public domain but he sold them to GE for $750,000.
   General Electric needs to do nothing. No investment. No team. No manufacturing plant.
   Others will do the work. GE collects on the patent licenses.
   Before 1900, populations were nomadic and could move to where water became more available.
   Today people are fixed in cities like LA, San Jose and Phoenix. Potable water must be transported. . . or else!
   I just saw a public service message from governments of Calgary and Edmonton about drinking water on television.
   THEY have awakened! = TG

7. “On St George’s Day, EU wipes England off map
   The Telegraph”
   http://tinyurl.com/6zr3h9
   Rudyard Kipling foresaw it all.
   “Far-called, our navies melt away;
   On dune and headland sinks the fire:
   Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
   Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!”
   Recessional: composed on the occasion of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897.

8. Food Crisis manufactured by Madass; a ruse to exterminate/murder Iraqis. A ploy copied from VladLenin/Joe/Adolf/Mao/PolPot, et al.
   …-
   BAGHDAD – Officials in Iraq say the fourth trial of top figures from Saddam Hussein’s government will begin next week.
   Former deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz and six others face charges in the execution of dozens of merchants in 1992. Aziz, the only Christian among Saddam’s inner circle, was for years among the most visible leaders of the ousted regime. Among his co-defendants are a half brother of Saddam and the former Central Bank chief.
   A court spokesman says the trial is scheduled to start Tuesday and deals with the execution of 42 merchants accused by Saddam’s government of being behind a sharp increase in food prices when the country was under strict UN sanctions.
   The merchants were rounded up from Baghdad’s wholesale markets and charged with manipulating food supplies to drive up prices at a time when many Iraqis were suffering economically.”
   http://tinyurl.com/59dv4z (asspress)
   …-
   Meanwhile, King Clubs is recruited for the noose:
   “Saddam Hussein’s ally Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri ‘captured’ in Iraq
   American forces have captured Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party heir, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the most wanted former regime official still at large, it has been reported.”
   http://tinyurl.com/64j5lp (telegraph)

9. Eskimo…thanks for the laugh.I’m looking at a JF Cruiser,not great on gas but seemingly perfect for Vancouver’s wet weather.Purchase a found on road dead/fix or repair daily,that sounds more like the reasoning of someone who buys a 38″ plasma television but can’t afford it.

10. I was contacted by the “Office de la Langue Française (OLF)” or the Bureau of French language, an official government department, and they told me that someone had complained that my web site was not completely in French. By the way, if a site is not commercial (i.e. nothing for sale), it is considered a personal site and you can what you want with it, write in Tibetan only if you wish. I have a lot of written material on my site and I would say that at least 80% of it was translated. I made some effort and brought the translation level up to 90-95%, but this was not good enough, only 100% would do. Also I have Google adds and Google does it’s best to detect the language of a web page and puts corresponding adds in French where appropriate. But that doesn’t always work especially if there are few words on a page. So the OLF guy tells me that this has to be corrected. I tell him I have no control over Google and he says he doesn’t care. If I can’t get the Google add to behave I must get rid of the offending page and also the corresponding page in English, there must be strict equivalence of French and English.