I think the theme looks good. I like the blue background gradient and the Green/Navy headers. I especially like that the left column doesn't drop below the main content like many dasBlog themes. One picky point is that you have a min width for your two columns, but the content of the main column still shrinks after your main column reaches minimimum width. Things seem to work fine on the comments page so this may just apply to the main page.

I've been spending time recently skinning dasBlog so it is nice to see a good new theme!

I don't think I quite understand what you mean. I can't seem to produce the problem that you describe.

Nevermind, now i see what you mean. I'll see if I can fix that.