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So the iPad then?
It’s now been a week since the launch event for the iPad, I’ve now watched the Apple keynote and done a little research on the new Apple device. For those who don’t know about it, where have you been? I thought I would give my thoughts on what Apple have come up with, why some aren’t pleased and what I think the future of the device will be.
When I saw and read about the iPad I was underwhelmed, there’s a lot that’s ‘wrong’ with it, however now I have a chance to mull it over I think I get where Apple are coming from. People were always going to be disappointed with whatever they made, they wanted something revolutionary. I read someone complaint that the text input is by an onscreen keyboard, what else was it going to be? A thought keyboard, where you just think what you want to type? Let’s get real people.
I’ve sat down and tried to imagine the thought process behind the device, first we know things that Jobs doesn’t seem to like:
1. Flash
2. External memory – he likes everything built in to the device
3. Stylus –…
Up in the air
Jason Reitman’s previous two films have been pretty good movies to say the least. ‘Thank you for not smoking’ is highly enjoyable and definitely worth checking out and ‘Juno’ is just brilliant. So what about his new one ‘Up in the air’, I was hoping for something as good.
‘Up in the air’ is about Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), he has a job which involves traveling around the country firing people and ‘preparing’ them for the a new start. He spends his life in hotels, living out of a suitcase most of the time and those few days he does spend at ‘home’ a year he hates. Some would see his life as empty and unfulfilled, he has nothing to do with his family, no real friends, he’s alone…. just the way he likes it. All is well with Ryan’s life until his company try and stop him flying thanks to a young upstart with a fancy degree who thinks she can revolutionise the way Ryan does his business.
There so put to ‘Up in the air’ than I’ve given away in that short synopsis, in fact if you look at the synopsis it doesn’t sound a very appealing…
continue reading …A little about Glaucoma
So it’s been ages since I wrote a post about eyes when I said I would do it regularly, I’m such a bad blogger! I thought I would continue my basic introduction to eye conditions, so after my basic guide to what a cataract is I’ll try and give you the basics of Glaucoma.
Glaucoma is quite a big topic and it can give complicated very quickly. There are a quite a few different forms of the condition, but in simple terms Glaucoma is damage to the optic nerve head (this is the the point at which the connect between the eye and brain joins the eye). The damage is usual caused by raised pressure within the eye (which is not the same as raised blood pressure). If you think of the eye like a football (bear with me), if you pump a football up too much then the pressure causes the stitching to be put under tension, instead of the the stitching (which your eye doesn’t have!!) in the eye the tension is put on the optic nerve head and if this happens for a long time it causes damage.
The pressure in the eye is controlled by…
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