The 133 theme is essentially an experiement, or a diversion: a way to kill a couple of spare hours on a Saturday afternoon with Radio 5 on in the background and no domestic football to distract me (although I’ll probably be able to follow my team on international weekends in the very near future).

I had a few things in mind when writing the theme: I wanted a traditionally paginated, dive into the full content affair, and something that’s both easy to read and doesn’t make the reader think of anything beyond flicking between posts.

From a writer’s point of view, it’s more like a Tumblog or Posterous, but with half decent markup. You could it use to post pictures, quick thoughts etc. I removed the WordPress commenting system altogether and replaced it with a simple ‘Tweet this post’ link by incorporating the Simple Twitter Link plugin. There’s no archive, no navigation menu.

Behind the scenes, it’s built on a slightly modified version of the Sandbox theme: very few changes were made to the PHP files and the CSS weighs in at around 250 lines (including comments).

It’s ready to use now. I may add search and archives in future versions. Or maybe not.