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Whilst I’m not a great fan of either Helvetica or Arial, this article on the subject of Arial’s displacement of Helvetica means that I view Helvetica slightly better than before. Certainly in a better light than Arial.
My favourite fonts at the moment would be the Bitstream Vera series ([get them here](http://www.gnome.org/fonts/) ) and Trebuchet MS. On the serif side, I still like Georgia, especially when xft'd. Non-anti aliased it looks a little thin. Garamond, the old classic Apple font, is also one I like on certain occasions. For monospace fonts, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono is my favourite **by far** right now. It's got a quality and care to its look I haven't seen for a long time in monospaced fonts.
Recently XFT, the Linux font renderer, has improved in leaps and bounds. I would say that it now beats Windows font rendering hands down. For those that deride Linux font handling, grab yourself a new distro with XFT2, copy your Windows fonts into ~/.fonts (along with the Bitstreams, of course), and prepare for a nice surprise =)
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I bought myself a rather nice wall scroll from eBay a couple of days ago. It arrived yesterday and is now on my wall looking pretty cool. It just fits the space over my bed, which was looking rather empty! Here’s an image:
Nice, eh?
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I downloaded the new Gentoo 1.4 release yesterday. It’s sitting on my desk at home waiting for Saturday when we get the internet at home (finally!) to be installed. Should be fun!
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Stopdesign introduces a see also section with links to useful examples and articles. We need more of these to create an easier way to drag up articles and tutorials that we see and pass on but then forget about. As more and more information appears on weblogs rather than centralised places, such as ALA , the number of links that must be stored increases immensely.
Bookmarks just don't cut it with the sheer amount of links that need to be stored somewhere. The amount of info a bookmark can store just isn't large enough to allow a search to effectively work right now, especially in IE where you can hardly store any additional info. A system the automatically reads the keywords from pages would be a start. Some learning based on previous searches would also go a long way towards making managing the link pile easier. Typing in "css box model" would pull up, say, five links to your favourite sites with "css box model" as keywords. Obviously this is just a very rough idea, but better ways to manage the volume of links and information available now online are sorely needed in the coming years.
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Mezzoblue redesigns using XHTML and CSS. Yes, along with many others, we didn’t check the code of the old site and subconsciously assumed it was already CSS positioned. Slap on our wrists, indeed. Even nicer than before now, even so =)