When I was younger, my usual travel routine would be to pick up a copy of New Scientist from Smiths at Heathrow. It was my reading material of choice for those long haul flights. Somehow, unnoticed by me, over the next couple of years and many air miles later, I’ve completely forgotten about it until today. These days, I don’t have much of a departure lounge ritual apart from checking Facebook and sending out a tweet or two. If I’m to catch up on the recent developments in science, I’d just check my iPhone. Back then, print was king, now, you can just read it off the iPhone or if you’re feeling a bit flush, subscribe and read it off the iPad app.

Whether you notice it or not, things are changing, albeit slowly at times.

This new stripey theme’s quite neat I reckon, but perhaps a little pink some might find. I think I might get a skin designed for my netbook (should I take the plunge) based on these stripes. I got the theme from Design Disease.

For nostalgia purposes, I’ve stuck in a screenshot of the old theme.