As I hope you can all see, I've just installed a new theme for the blog as I was getting bored with the old one ... so here it is. I found it on the Movable Type Style Contest site, on which the people behind Movable Type try frantically to narrow the gap between MT and Wordpress in terms of the variety of themes available.
The original of this theme was very primary-colour heavy with a yellow background and a picture of a red bus or tram car in a place I don't know, so I adapted the Almost Spring colour scheme to the structure and substituted a New Malden street photo, with a red bus (and it had to be one showing New Malden as the destination) going up the High Street from the Fountain (which is in the roundabout behind it) towards the station. I hope the original author doesn't mind. (No, I'm not releasing the CSS - I don't want anyone to have an identical blog theme to mine.)
AA. It looks the same to me.
Salaam;
I like the new look -- and I think your color scheme is much easier on the eyes than the original. Great tagline. :)
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm stupid, I was looking at the wrong blog. Yes, it does look nice and fresh. I'm having great fun templating myself - coming soon to a blog near you: the prayer-rug template. Though I say soon: I'm still colouring in with Photoshop. Are we going to see new content in blogistan now we have a nice new template?
Tim: it depends if anyone decides to contribute ... I've not had much interest so far.
The same template is used there as here, but I expect to replace it pretty soon (I was using it as a test bed on which to test this theme). I will probably replace it pretty soon, hopefully before we get more contributors.
I'm the original designer of the style -- as much as the style can be called "designed". As you say, it was pretty clean and simple and very primary-colour happy. It's meant to be easily modified, and you've done a good job of it. I'm glad you liked my design enough to build off it.
The vehicle in the original photograph, by the way, was a Toronto streetcar turning into the loading bay of Broadview station.