Wanted: A monkey with eyesight problems

So today something happened that has never happened in all my years of computer use. I had to use Cmd+ (translation from Mac-speak: increase the text size) a website I was reading because the font was too small for my eyes.

When the hell did that happen?

I remember being in college working on a 14″ monitor with a Linux configuration that was decidedly unhealthy (read: the monitor could have blown up at any moment because of the hotrodded refresh rate) just so I could get the most screen real estate that I could. Now I find myself drawn toward Web 2.0-style websites simply because they are shiny and have big fonts.

*Insert your own geriatric chimpanzee joke here*

To try to deflect attention away from my vision deterioration I’ll leave with a link that was passed along to me.

http://flashface.ctapt.de/

It is a Flash based website for creating police-style artist renditions of faces. I have no idea what use something like this has, but who hasn’t wanted to see their face on a Wanted poster. Err, hmm, never mind about that.

About Grant

I grew up on the mean cul-du-sacs of Troy, Ohio, USA. I first started "programming" at the age of five on an Atari 400 when I used BASIC to draw an ASCII picture of robot with wheels on his feet. Why the emphasis on feet with wheels? At the time it was a big deal, I didn't have wheels on my feet which forced me to walk everywhere. I would have been so much cooler to just skate around. Since then I've gone on to work on all manners of different technologies, but rest assured if I ever write another robot program he won't just be walking around. Perhaps some tank treads...
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