that is a good design, you have made a very good, "above the fold" display which will certainly make your reader click one of your article links or scroll down. Wish you would slow down the rotator though, it is a bit fast...
Here is a few things you can still consider,
1) Your permalinks as the /archieves/ in the link structure, perhaps you can get rid of it unless you got a reason to keep it.
2) Why not use the feedburner feed, it has quite a lot of features.
3) Good to see that you got a facebook fan page and a twitter id, you have even incorporated a few social buttons at the end of the posts. I like the facebook share and the retweet buttons instead of those static buttons at the end of the posts, it sort of makes your reader share you content, kind of call to action.
over all it is a good blog, best of luck with it,