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I had to see it to believe it, and here’s the proof. It does snow in Australia. The photo is me standing in a place called Thredo in New South Wales’ Snowy Mountains.

Here’s something which I’ve never seen outside Australia. See the string of red lights above the parked cars? Red means the space is occupied, green means it’s free. The information about free spaces is also displayed on matrix signs at every junction.

Instead of driving up and down rows, you can just follow the signs and glance down each row until you spot a green light.

Unnecessary? Maybe. But it sure does make finding a space more pleasurable in busy city multi-storey car parks.

I deeply regret not taking a tripod of any sort up with me. This picture is probably the best of a bad bunch.

If I cared or knew anything about sports I’m pretty sure living in a former olympic park would be very different. For example, tomorrow night is Game I of the 2013 State of Origin, where… um, teams play each other at sport… right here at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney Olympic Park. It seems to be a pretty big deal.

I may be clueless, but I can still look at the pretty lights. These buildings aren’t normally this blue.

Wikipedia says the New South Wales rugby league team are also known as the Blues. That could explain it I suppose.

The old theme used here on zerosleeps was getting a bit tired. I was always happy with the customisation I’d applied to the underlying Twenty Ten theme for WordPress, but that was a couple of years ago and things move fast on the Intertubes. For example, the old theme wasn’t responsive in any way, meaning that whether you viewed the site on a desktop browser or a mobile device, you got the same thing. Embarrassing.

So what you’re looking at now is something I worked on last weekend. I figured I might as well go for a style overhaul while I was fixing other problems. I’d love to tell you that what you’re looking at was lovingly hand-crafted by me, but I lack the creative wit: the theme is called Moustachey and it was created by MeanThemes. It solves the responsive layout issue (if you’re using a desktop browser look at one of my recent photo posts and make your window really narrow to see it in action), and adds a few new post layout options which I’ll no doubt be experimenting with over the next couple of posts.