Well, for all you folks reading the web version (and not just the feed,) I've got a new look for you. I've been wanting something brighter and more cheerful for a while now and I finally sat down and plugged some happy colors (all taken from the Firefox UI) into my stylesheet. I still haven't done anything to make sure the various archives are looking good, but that can wait 'till tomorrow.
If you're a feed reader, maybe click that link to come take a look at what you're missing (for good or bad ;-) and if you're a Web page reader and this is just too crazy bright for you, consider grabbing one of my feeds with a feed reader -- I recommend the Forumzilla extension for Thunderbird mail or the Sage extension for Firefox.
I've checked the page over in Gecko and IE and I do see the few IE glitches that you're probably seeing. I'm looking for help ironing out those wrinkles in IE so if you have experience in styling for that browser, suggestions or patches are welcome.
If you're using Opera, Safari, or any other niche browser and see problems, I'm happy to fix them if the comments come with a patch that doesn't break things in Gecko and IE.
update: I just took a look back at some of the design submissions from a couple of weeks ago and noticed some real similarities to Grayrest's design. I guess I got some subconcious inspiration from that. Thanks Grayrest. It's a very nice design. Maybe I'll try to get that working as the alternate style.