Good points again. DaveO, I dislike the way the coated lenses pick up grease and lint, and are harder to keep clean. But I also dislike seeing my eyeball reflected back at me when I'm reading the lighted surface of the monitor.

The reason I'm going ahead and getting the anti-glare coating is because I won't be using these outside or when I'm driving, when the coating is at it's most annoying. I think for an indoor pair of glasses they'll do what they're supposed to do.

I sit about 24 inches or more back from my monitor. The resolution is set so that I can work on multiple windows at once, so the higher the resolution the more bits of a task I can have going at once. This means, for example, that I will be using FrontPage and Word and PhotoDraw and Notepad, and viewing the results with IE and Netscape, so all are open more or less simultaneously. I do minimize them to get them out of the way, but I'm always popping in and out of these programs.

And then (with no segue) there's the firewall that we started talking about. Can anyone discuss how routers and their software fit into the legal/illegal discussion that started this thread? They block a lot of stuff, or keep inquisitive hackers out (or so I've been told).

SRS