Site Updates and Introductions

First, I've made several updates to the sidebar on the site. Please give me some feedback on it. Ideally I'll continue to tweak the design on this site because right now its a little too generic for my taste. If you have any design ideas, please let me know.

Second, introductions are in order. If you feel like it, I would encourage everyone to write at least a brief message introducing himself/herself. If it's short, just throw it in the comments of this thread, and if it's long, put it on your own blog, and then put a link to it in the comments of this thread.

Finally, if you haven't offered input yet into the organization of this blog, be sure to read through the previous post and comments and throw your thoughts into the mix. The more input we get, the better we can make this. Thanks.