While I don't mind the white background, I believe there is simply too much white. If you have the body of the posts be white, then maybe the body of the page can be CCC or some other color. White allows me to focus, and right now I am focus on the page as a whole instead of the important content (the posts!)

Or maybe the inverse of that where the body of the posts is grey. It could be that I am just so used to the older layout that I am trying to gripe though.