in reply to Can I adopt a node?

And how would the Monastery's internals know that you were indeed the AnnonyMonk who wrote the original node?

As an alternate to Burak's themes suggestion, you may want to consider some of the Free Nodlet hacks which litter the halls (reversing the layout, for example) or developing modest personal CSS to provide a distinctive font, color scheme or attribute to the rendering when you are logged in.