It’s the Future
We’re working (albeit very slowly indeed) on the redesign for this blog (although we’re still stuck on how to export the 10,000 or so posts from the archives!) but if you want a sneak preview of the new site check out the new, ultra modern, sleek gromblog of the future (no, not really).
Hey Stu! That isn't actually the new site but was a poor joke – it's the old site run through a Geocities-izer to make it look like a 90's site (actually not too far away from how the site looked about 10 years ago!)
You can see what we're actually playing with by going here test

Perhaps because I am looking at it at work, on IE6, that the new website looks terrible. The big nasty courier font (present on the links, comments & titles even after you change the font), the site navigation panel overlaps the blog panel, clipping the last couple of characters off the line and the animated gifs screw the formatting & just look tatty.
Sorry grom, but on this evidence, I prefer your original.
Cheers Stu