Went get a sight test today, being a heavy computer user (as a computer technical specialist),my employer pays for the test and eventual computer orientated glasses.

Whilst I was waiting to be seen by the optician I was surprised by the variety of choice (and cost) in the range. The offerings from Synoptik (I live in Sweden) for the lenses ranged from approx £130 to £650 depending on the usable area.

Fortunately my prescription hasn’t changed enough to warrant new private glasses.

I was expecting to be offered single vision lenses more suitable to the screen distance, but instead was offered computer orientated varifocals with a profile more suitable for computer use. Actually there was a choice of profiles according to what you want to see, ranging from only the screen, to allowing you to see the rest of the office over the top of my screen.

We will see how these work, I was told that I should find them more comfortable as would not need to tilt me head back quite so much, and the icing on the cake is that they will only cost me £15 due to my frame choice.

Conclusions, to summarise from this thread :-
1. Don’t choose frames with an overly small area.
2. Be aware that cheaper lenses might have a narrower area usable for reading, so you might have to move your head.
3. Move your computer screen lower so you look down on it. I find that, having a desk that allows you to change the height, standing (or resting your bottom on a moderately high stool), makes it easier to look down.
4. Check out the availability of a more computer orientated lens profile

As I walk outside the ground always seems to be on a curve – horrible! I also totally agree with the taxi driver that they are dangerous for driving: the first time I drove in them I nearly had an accident as I simply didn’t see a car to my right and I now wear my contacts for driving.

I think the frames I have are actually too small for the lenses – I know the optician said he could just fit them in so I really feel that the alignment is not correct. I sit in front of a computer screen all day so obviously not using the correct part of the lens…..

I did not knock on one door in Pound Hill North, but received 80 votes.

If any candidate can ‘connect’ with the 70% non-voters (especially its young people), then they will achieve a landslide victory – and I don’t think that ‘tsunami’ of support is dependent on “door-
knocking”..

I don’t know if you noticed, but the membership of all parties is on the decline.

Until that starts to happen, the vast majority of people (70%) will simply not vote again – because they can’t see any sufficiently-fundamental differences between the main parties, which will make them ‘get off their backsides’ on election day (however much you knock on doors).

Labour needs to get back to being Labour.

Have you heard of the categorisation of political activists into the two groups of leaflet activists and pamphlet activists?

Left-wing parties have rather more of the pamphlet than leaflet variety as a trend, I think. The more left-wing parties like SWP have even more. The pamphlet activists think that the voters would be persuaded if only they would read the 8-pages of careful argument they have assembled.

But that isn’t the way the theory impacts political messages as it happens. It is that the conservative message reaches the parts other ideologies don’t reach – the moral foundations of loyalty, fairness, sanctity, and so on which liberal messages don’t address so directly.

Even when liberal messages are more emotional than reasoned they only address the care and harm moral foundations.

Something like that anyway.