Matt Mullenweg recently came up with a collection of links from all over, which led me to this Joe Clark guy’s entry about using BBEdit. In it is this one gem that has helped me for the past few days work faster and better in my word processing and other typing work. Says Joe:

I have meticulously-developed preferences that make it easy to stare at text files all day. As stated in my book’s colophon, I do indeed use black Georgia 17 text on a pink [rgb(242,181,231)] background. I struggle to explain why this backdrop colour works. It merely does. And pink is not a positioning statement of any kind, nor is it an amusing coincidence or “ironic.” I admit I tried it on a lark, but, like a stray cat, it seems to have adopted me.

Working on a 1280*1024-pixel screen I have to deal with smaller stuff all the time. This tip from Joe has helped me a lot and I have modified my WordPress UI’s CSS to adopt this environment, even if it’s just the editing area. Joe has his screenshot, here is mine (clipped, but it shows enough).

Give it a try; who knows, maybe it’ll help you do your work better too.