You may (or may not) have noticed that I put my little do-dads of information on the left of the website, instead of the right (as most have it.)
This design choice might be unwise - I am not yet sure. Most readers read items such as websites left-to-right, up-to-down. Putting this relatively unimportant information to the left of the actual content may therefore be a bad decision.
However, I didn't want to fit into the crowd. I wanted the little information, but I didn't want it too look like how everyone else had it. So I compromised. People tend to pay less attention to things that are less visible, so I made my information boxes less visible. If you hover over them, they fade into sharper focus, allowing you to read their contents easily.
I'm still not sure if they are actually transparent enough. I'll probably play around with them a bit.