This new template I found here reminds me so much of the design I picked when I was blogging on Tripod. I called my old blog Dark Misty Realm and had the look almost exactly as this template. I remembered being a very active blogger in Tripod. I think that's the most productive site I had.
Nostalgia sucks.
I also picked the black background because it is easier to read than any other backgrounds. Maddox said that reading about an hour on white background (of your monitor) is tantamount to looking at a florescent for the same amount of time.
Gotta split now.