On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 05:03  PM, Trey Harris wrote:

> In a message dated Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Michael Lazzaro writes:
>
>> <humor>
>> Uh-oh: my life is gonna suck.  I've spent days hunting obscure bugs
>> that were caused by a single mistyped character.  Now I'll be spending
>> days hunting obscure bugs that were caused by a single *pixel*.
>> </humor>
>
> I've already been there, my friend. :-)  MacOS X's pretty anti-aliased
> fonts make it impossible to tell the difference between colon and
> semi-colon at small type sizes.  It didn't used to matter, but now it
> really does.  I have a hot key to make my terminal's font bigger 
> whenever
> I'm reading perl6 mail. :-)

Andale Mono is all fun and games until someone loses half an hour of 
their life to:

int x, y, z:
char ch;

:-)

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