The blog is not bad but you should add more colors into the color scheme and add some graphics to the page the make the blog look more appealing.
Your blog looks decent and simple to me, what ill suggest you to go for more colors, or some WEB 2.0 effects, and logos, that would make it even better. good luck to you mate.
yeah nice design overall.. you need a good logo and as said above try using the read more link to shorten the articles down good luck