BLAH!

I don't like it at all - There's a big ugly grey block in the middle of a page whereas with the old layout I can have my page as clear as possible.  I didn't see any options in the channel editing where I could change it to get rid of it.  In fact, the options seemed more limited.  I would at least keep the old layout as an option, or give more layout customization options - like how Blogger is.