> > I finally went to the dentist today. My new dentist's name is Dr. Payne--I chose to go to him because of his location, plus I wanted to tell people that my dentist's name is Dr. Payne. The visit went better than I hoped, but he still sent me home with a fistful of codeine pills.

Heh. I spent 2.5 hours at the eye doctor's today. Today was the first day of operation ever at the new clinic; I was the very first patient scheduled; and I *still* had to wait and wait and wait... Ack. And then, in order to check my retinas, she (the ophthalmologist, who was what most guys like Dave might call an "eye-popping knockout babe," but that's beside the point), put the poison in my eyes to dilate my pupils -- and I had to wait /another/ twenty minutes for it to take effect.

Well, at least I got to look beautiful for the rest of the day, what with having giant black pupils that made me look like a Japanese animé character :-)


> > I spent a timeon my website, and I am finally happy with it. It's exactly what I envisioned. I've never had this much success in creating exactly what I had in mind when I started.
> > --Jez"just felt like writing--sorry"zika
>
> The site's nice, but can I give you some advice (from several years of web site development)?
>
> White on black text is very hard to read. Not as bad as red on black, but it's very straining on the eyes. Black on white is better, but black on a neutral grey (a light grey) is even better on the eyes.
>

Black on light-grey is better? From struggling with the text on Palm pilots, or with trying to read the digits on Liquid Crystal Display calculators, I'm not quite sure about that. I know the "standard" black-text-on-white background is relatively difficult to read, too.

Back in grad studies, we used to make slide-show projections using yellow text against deep cyan (blue) backgrounds. We found this to be the easiest combination on the eyes in a poorly lit room. I occasionally let the blue background shade gradually into a deep mauve, for variety. I'm wondering if these would still be fashionable colour combinations used in students' slide-show presentations, these days.

Wolfspirit