Half a year has passed since the last theme change, so tradition dictates I pick a new one again. Actually, this time I wanted to change because Agregado lacks fluid-width support. Seeing your website on a 2000px monitor, all alone in a narrow vertical beam in the center, really makes you question your web skills.

This new one is Colourised, and it is lovely. Lovely I say. I particularly love the prismatic spectrum in the background.

Naturally, I had to tweak quite heavily, as with all themes. The default is for the content to start well in the bottom half of the screen, for no other clear reason than to offer a clear view of the background image. Which is admittedly lovely, but it can be admired just as well behind the text. My tweak shifts the header, slogan and content all up a few notches.

Afte setting up the theme, my next priority was getting my page to validate again. This is something you need to retest regularly, because there will always be something around to break it again. In this case, I had to rewrite Drupal's entire linebreak generator, which wasn't able to work around in-line divs and headings in XHTML-valid ways. Pleased to say that it works very well now.

You can also see I have added a Latest Tweets block to my sidebar, since I'm using Twitter quite heavily these days.

I think I've been coding on one thing or another (proxydb, dhtml_menu, shell scripts, xbbcode) for well over twelve hours now. Mostly to avoid having to follow the news. I don't think I've felt physically ill like this since March 2003. Why do politics need to turn wonderful human beings into martyrs?