I’m the Euphoric frickin’ Llama.

I’m no expert on typefaces. In fact, my design skills generally suck. However, after reading Sebastiaan de With’s article on Helvetica, I started to notice the font (and its bastard cousin, Arial) wherever I went. I changed Firefox’s default sans-serif font to Lucida Grande over Helvetica and suddenly, Wikipedia went and looked a whole lot better. Unfortunately, Google insists on using Arial for all its web pages (for old browser-compatibility, perhaps?), and it really started to piss me off. So much so, in fact, that I decided to change it. I’d heard of Stylish before, and decided to finally install it. So here’s my Stylish script to fix Google:

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain("google.com"), domain("google.co.uk") {

    body {

        font-family: "Lucida Grande", sans-serif !important;

    }

}

If this isn’t a reason to use Firefox over IE/Safari, I don’t know what is. Now go, install Stylish, and fix that butt-ugly website. Oh, and if you’re a Windows user, use Lucida Sans Unicode instead.

Check out my awesome monitor setup, now I’m back home:

See that? That’s hardcore. Let it be known that students will stop at nothing in order to save all the cash they can - even if it involves digging out 16″ CRTs from the depths of my wardrobe and filling my desk space with them.

And yes, that’s Vista. On that piece of crap. I had a spare copy, so I thought, “Why not?” The results were… catastrophic. It can just about render wallpaper without falling over. But it’s so pretty… even if one monitor displays slightly different colours to the other (and that’s after tweaking the output with the ATi Catalyst Control Centre).

As a comparison, here’s my new(ish) setup, over at Home 2.0:

Now, you tell me: which one is more awesome?