Whitespace should always and forever be handcrafted, never automated. 
 I insist on 80 columns of monospaced text on a black background. 

 123456789_123456789_123456789_123456789_123456789_123456789_123456789_123456789_ 

 I do that using these style sheet overrides for Moz FireFox 1.0.3,  
 userChrome.CSS and userContent.CSS: 
   http://www.Cotse.NET/users/jeffrelf/userContent.CSS 
   http://www.Cotse.NET/users/jeffrelf/userChrome.CSS 
 They make pages look like this: 
   http://www.Cotse.NET/users/jeffrelf/CSS.PNG 

 I try to follow Wiki's rules when working on public pages, 
 and I invite you to change them as you see fit, 
 but I may well use whitespace differently from you in the less public places.