You must have had a temporarily slow connection. For me with Firefox, there's the blue background for about 2 seconds, then the final background appears.

Everything is looking better, except the changeover to sans serif is, to me, something that makes things harder to read. I like the way serif fonts allow one to differentiate similar but different characters.

Still pushing for the preview page for comments. For example, such a thing might have prevented some of those links and HTML examples from running outside the right margin.

One thing for sure, once the blog layout is finalized, Phil will be able to add a subtitle that reads:

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