some blog renovations

I have been wanting to add some cool stuff to my blog for awhile, but have lacked the time and the knowledge. I will let this kind of thing stew in my brain for the longest time sometimes and finally one day it just *clicks*

And that's exactly what happened the other day. I realized how to do exactly what i wanted with the labels in the sidebar and also for my signature :) I carved out some time this afternoon and got to it...

I've actually been thinking about changing the overall look of the blog, but now that i put all this extra time into making it look cool i'm not sure about doing that after all. But at any rate, what do you think of the new changes? ie the signature and sidebar thingys???