I have been very bemused about the fact that there has been this new push towards LCD screens. I still have a 21" CRT (box shaped monitor) screen which I bought at a yard sale years ago when someone was switching over. The color has generally not been as good on LCDs as it was on older monitors like mine. The color and contrast ratio of newer screens has improved a lot in the last year or two. My brother in law bought a macintosh recently with an absolutely huge and very attractive glossy high contrast lcd screen - it must be about 32 inches from one corner to the opposite corner. But still, I don't believe the resolution goes as high as what I typically use - which is the highest resolution on XP or Vista: 2048 pixels in width by 1536 pixels in height (although, I had to bend a monitor cord pin out of the way in order to get my windows Vista to display at 2048x1536). They don't even make CRT screens anymore from what I can tell from looking at my favorite tech websites. I have a preview version of Windows 7 - which will be coming out sometime this autumn perhaps.. and I couldn't get that to display the high resolutions I'm accustomed to. That's quite a dealbreaker for me. I would never use a computer system without being able to go up to the highest resolution which I've been accustomed to using. I just need the work area. A bigger desktop makes me a lot more productive.

The thought that dawned on me this morning, though... that perhaps most people have the opposite situation with their eyes. I am slightly nearsighted - I believe my vision would be rated at about about 20/40. But my reading vision is fine. I wonder if most people are slightly farsighted. The standard for what most people can see at 20 feet away doesn't tell you what most people can see at 3 feet away, now does it? Perhaps I should redesign this website to make it easier to read my text - the background texture is maybe best left to the edges of the page.