Nope. He just put the HTML code to activate it, just like you do in your profile. You can confirm that quoting his post.
About your layout. I really like black and white (or grayscale, for the nerds ) stuff. It wouldn't be that amazing if it weren't for the awesome "vertical" gradient. It feels much more unique with that. The font is easy on the eyes, with a color that is quite readable in both lighter and darker sides of the gradient (the borders as well). Nice job on that. The fading Reshiram was also a good idea, and since it's a black version of it, it really fits with the layout. (Reshiram rox, btw.) The sig is okay, nothing wrong with it. 9/10 (btw, when I say good job, I'm referring to the layout creator, of course)
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Sample link.
See quote above (the beginning of this post).
LDA I STA dunno RTS asm.
Edit: agree with text-shadow and bold in links. Lowered shadow and removed bold. Thanks, Tahix.
Edit 2: tis laiout wuz edit'd.