I’ve changed the look of the site (again). I got tired of the dark/grey look and wanted something brighter. Thanks to Count Zero for making the wonderful Binary Blue theme.

Now to the untrained eye this theme is just a theme. If one looks closely this theme is not just a theme but is a theme framework. This both really cool and kind of sad.

The really cool part is that this theme does do a lot. It’s ajax based does fancy stuff like inline comments. It also “degrade[s] automatically and gracefully if a visitor with a non-javascript browser visits the blog”. Furthermore this theme comes with full localization support! This really suprised me, esspecially when I installed it and it came out in German! My first thought, due to a healthy obsession with Fawlty Towers, was “I can fix this just nobody mention the war“. I finally thought of reading the readme and it reminded me to set the localization for Wordpress instead of trying to translate the entire theme by hand inside the code. On the other hand it seems kind of pathetic and sad to write an extensible framework on top of another extensible framework (I appreciate the added functionality but… how many extensible frameworks is there room for?).