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Light Gray on White Background
For a few years I've noticed that the new style is a light gray text on a bright white background.
I guess it is energy-saving option, but it is quite hard on the eyes.
Yesterday I had all I could stands I couldn't stands no more and I searched for an option and found this helpful plugin which is easy to set.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/high-contrast/djcfdncoelnlbldjfhinnjlhdjlikmph?hl=en[^]
It has some nice options which allow you choose various options for each web site even:
1. normal
2. increased contrast -- makes text darker (instead of the light gray)
3. grayscale
4. inverted color -- great for low-light situations like night-time browsing so screen isn't so bright
5. inverted grayscale
6. yellow on black
Shift+F11 shortcut to DISABLE
I don't usually like installing plugins, but this one is really worth it.
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Very nice. Being thoroughly middle-aged, I despise the 20-something design fascists that declare that 0xE0E0E0 is the new 0x000000.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: Being thoroughly middle-aged,
I'm with you 100%. 
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I wish I were still middle aged!!!but then again, I get to drawa pension and take withdrawals from my retirement savings without actually working.
My wife and I are planning a month vacation in Bolivia in December and January. The main purpose is to decide if we will retire there now or later.
Getting old does have advantages, if you can survive!!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: Being thoroughly middle-aged
Ah, Lucky Man, to be still there !
How to know when you are past middle-aged: look in the rear-view mirror; if you don't see your rear, you are there.
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I'm in trouble... 
Software Zen: delete this;
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Great find, Newton !
I never would have thought I would find "angelic" in the Lounge !
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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This has been the design of Apple packages for years. The good thing is the text is very short.
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Methinks Google is trying to be the OS of the 50 shades of gray demographic.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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I've been waiting for my Insider email the entire day (missed a few, but I'm back on WiFi in this hotel), but it never came.
So it's evening now and after a day sightseeing and hiking I'm back in the hotel and thought I'd just read the news on CodeProject and then I found out it's Saturday.
There's never an Insider on Saturday... D'oh! 
Funny thing how you forget the days of the week on vacation.
How does that go when you retire and stop working? Isn't every day Saturday?
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Quote: How does that go when you retire and stop working?
Being retired is certainly less stressful than working. That said, I sometimes miss the
stimulation that on-the-job problems can bring. Solving problems does give a person enormous satisfaction! I do try to stay engaged by doing some C# programming as a hobby. It's nice not to have to meet deadlines, but I do miss the challenge of deadlines at times.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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A friend of mine recently retired early. I asked him how that's going. He said the trick is to keep living in the moment and not think forward I guess to keep from freaking out about it.
My mother in law lost track of days of the week after retiring too.
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aFTER BEING IN AND OUT OF HOSPITALS, ETC. i REGULAR FORGET WHAT DAY IT IS. tg FOR MYCELL PHONE!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I think you may have Caps Lock on.
Hopefully nothing bad has happened again.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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nO IT WAS CAPS lOCK... iT GETS HIT BY ACCIDENT FROM TIME TO TIME.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I hate it when that happens.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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ROTFF
... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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What year it is ... is irrelevant since you are clearly living in the past.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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BillWoodruff wrote: What year it is ... is irrelevant since you are clearly living in the past.
"Cuz yesterday don't mean sh*t
What's over is over and nothing between
Yesterday don't mean sh*t
Because tomorrow's the day you have to face" - Pantera, Reinventing the Steel album
... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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yeah, right. Bill is going to give a sh*t what Pantera thinks are says. too funny 
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... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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BillWoodruff wrote: you are clearly living in the past
I am? 
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... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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No, every day is Thursday! Only Thursday has that special mix of feelings of incompleteness, directionlessness, and disjunction!
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Member 9082365 wrote: No, every day is Thursday! Only Thursday has that special mix of feelings of incompleteness, directionlessness, and disjunction!
All day long except for twice on Sundays except when it's raning
... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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