Lazy eye
June 28, 2007A few weeks ago, I decided to give contact lenses another try. It’s been working out just fine, in case you’re wondering. To me, my image in the mirror seems more natural now, as I never got used to wearing glasses; I only got them when I was 15 or 16. I knew I needed glasses long before that, but I tried to hide that fact. I succeeded just fine, until the school doctor found out I couldn’t read a darn thing.
My left eye was so bad, it should’ve been detected when I was 3 or 4, but no one discovered it back then. I had what they call a ‘lazy eye’; my left eye was much worse than my right eye (now, it’s -5.75 vs. -2.25), so my brain only actively used the information from the right eye. The good eye should’ve been ‘patched’ off, so that the lazy eye could develop and get better.
This has left me with one cool trick, though. I can see just fine with only the right eye’s lens in use. My brain goes back to the lazy eye mode it’s been accustomed to for 16 years, without a problem.
Weird.
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Thom, sorry that this message has nothing to do with the topic, but I could not find a post on the relevant subject, with is Windows Home Server and your excellent review of the WHS beta at OSNews.
Did you know that your OSnews article has been copied and published word for word at the Australian website smarthousecom.au?
The address is http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Media_Centres/Industry/Q3X2Q8B6.
While the publisher (David Richards, who is also the managing director of the site’s publisher 4Square Media) has given you a byline alongside of his own name, I wonder if he actually approached you to ask permission to copy your article on his website?
David Richards is very well known in Australia for plagiarism, by using the articles of other people (including many international news wire services and publications, often with only his name listed as author) in order to fill his website with content and thus increase the number of hits and therefore the amount of advertising revenue he makes. I have a feeling that he did not approach you or OSnews for permission, nor offer to pay you or OSnews any licensing or ‘reprint’ fee. Certainly the inclusion of your byline is not enough to justify his actions, especially when he has chosen not to link to OSnews but instead to print your entire article on his own website.
Skippy
Comment by Skippy — June 28, 2007 @ 3:07 pm