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18 June 2003

I live my life behind little rectangular windows. I have windows to peer through at computers, and a different set of windows for spying on the world at large. I am window man.

Today, my specs are blurry and I can’t get them clean. I’ve tried cleaning cloths, and I’ve tried rubbing them on my shirt. I’ve even tried pump-action spays that seem to do little more than make the surrounding area wet with their inaccurate aim, and smudge the stuff on the lenses around into new and interesting patterns. What is that stuff anyway? Does it have a name?

So today the world is smudgy for window man. Anyone got any top window-cleaning tips?

- Drew McLellan

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  1. § Mike: My mum always used to wash the windows with vineger water and newspaper to dry them with... Always came up spanking. Don’t know if that would work for glasses...
    Disclaimer: If it trashes the don’t sue me
  2. § Kf: Buy the solution for cleaning photgraphic leneses and lens paper. It will shine those spex right up!

    http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh3/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=16691&is=REG

    I second the window washing treatment with newsies.
  3. § Drew: Thanks, Kf, I’ll give that a try!
  4. § Brian: Brother in law is an optical technician and always uses methylated spirit to clean lenses. I use it regularly on coated Nikon lenses without problems. It’s the only thing I have found to get the lenses back to that ”new specs” level.
  5. § Drew: Thanks Brian. Meths should be even easier to get hold of than the photographic solution.
  6. § Mike: But not as easy as vineger...

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Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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