Excuse me for being stuck in the 2001’s, but why didn’t anyone ever tell me to enable “ClearType” fonts in XP?

It’s funny how 1 little drop-down menu can transform everything that i read into something so much more aesthetic, i mean even looking at this site – it just looks.. better! (Even as i’m typing this into [MT](http://www.movabletype.org) it just looks so much more .. crisp?)
Is crisp the word I’m after? I’m not even sure it’s the correct word – i mean, it’s definately not sharp or smooth. Font’s look more natural.
Even going through my [friends](http://www.livejournal.com/users/xntrik/friends) list, everything seems (or is it feels) more natural.

I guess i’ll be feeling the repercussions a bit until i’ve adjusted myself, specially when opening Word later on today – or doing some HTML in Ultraedit. Weird.

So does everyone have this setting enabled? Am *I* just thick? Is this one of those things that is the norm but for some reason i slept through it?

Probably.