Tweaked my blog template a bit again: the "brand" used to be a double-sized header, with drop shadow and custom colors for both the normal and the hover state. Now it's just normal text, smaller than post titles, in a monospace font, and no custom colors.
The idea is that it should not be distracting, but should be easy to access to get back to the root of my blog.
I think I like it better this way. Now to figure something out for the article meta-data, I don't like how its displayed...