Though I am not advocate the complete ban of Comic Sans MS, I do think it is exceedingly over-used. Please, people of the world, use another font! A nice serif, such as Times New Roman, or another sans. The font was never designed to be used aside from sparingly for a jaunty effect. Its purpose is not to do flyers at the local doctors that say “Please remember to cancel your appointment if you cannot make it. Missed appointments are no good for anyone.” Even Arial for goodness sakes!
This weekend I am going to see Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Ash, foo Fighters, Feeder, Lemon Jelly and more! Yup, I’m off to the V Festival! Woohoo! Excellent weekend ahead, if all goes well. My fingers are crossed…
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 =)
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?
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!