A New Look for Balzer Designs

I have had pretty much the same exact blog design since I started my blog and I decided that it was time to spice things up.  And by spice things up I mean make it look more like "me."  I have limited web design skills, so it was a week of cutting and pasting html and experimenting.  I don't totally have the skills to make it exactly what I want, but it's super close.

You'll recall the old design:

And now you can see the new one:

So what do you think?