Screens, pixels and resolution

To make it easier to visualize resolution, I created an images (left) representing simplified screens with each square representing a pixel. The area of a screen is divided up into a certain number of pixels. This is the screen's resolution.

Because the pixel number displayed and screen sizes vary greatly, from tiny mobile phone displays to 30" monitors, the number of pixels are more difficult to translate into resolution in a meaningful way, which is why the resolution is also referred to as pixels per inch - ppi.

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To put this into perspective, look at my name. Yes, that is where I live. On my own. In the middle of a dark wood, with no car access. You don't hear people approach. I do have a telephone. People call me before they visit. No one, and I mean no one, ever, ever, calls around after dark without letting me know by phone first. (scribble, scribble, 102 uses for cider vinegar, and a water pistol). But W is not like other people. He doesn't even approach with a torch (flash light). I would see it. The path runs in front of the window of my one room cabin. My desk faces the window.

"Do you have any sage?"

To put this into perspective, W walked about two miles to ask for a herb. W is no stranger to strangeness. A week earlier he called around but did not see me at my desk, but seeing by bike in the shed and washing on the line he deduced that I can't be far, so he goes into my workshop and lies down on the floor for a nap, since I must return before long. W is someone I only know for a few weeks. This is not an old friend, just to put this into perspective. He called around twice before. The first time to ask if I was a herbalist (no), the second to let me know that the atmosphere in the old railway carriage where I used to live - now the garden shed of the place where he lodges - was not so pleasant now since the little incident with the tightening nut of the garden sheers.

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A blog in a given niche, say parenting, might support a lot of readers without producing any income for the owner. Since we are all in business to make money, and need to be to justify the time we spend on what we do, this is bad for the blogger.

There are several recognized routes to monetizing a blog and some that just don't work.

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If you sometimes print web pages you can use this very useful free online tool, Print What You Like which helps you remove all the stuff you don't want to print reducing the amount of ink and paper you use. It can also be used to create simplified pdf files of interesting web pages to store on your computer for reference. Yes, you could simply save a web page as is, but it is easier to read pages without all the extraneous stuff like adverts, banners and anything else not of interest.

When you sign up with the service, you can place a link they provide in your bookmarks which allows you to call up the tool. When you visit a web page you want to edit, save or print all you do is click on the bookmark and the editor appears inside your browser next to the page. The editor allows you to save a page with one click.

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