I read blogs for a living

I've been doing some CSS tweaks to my blog over some time. Truls and I worked on the Heroes & Zeros group blog and I decided to add some of those elements to my own. But I feel something is missing. Can't really tell what ... Is it to messy? To big top picture? Should I add a dotted line between the content and the side element. Hm. What do you think? Gimme a tell so I can work on it.

P.S.: Quite happy with the font choice though, but maybe a bit to small?