Firstly, had a server die a really ugly death, and my personal site was a low priority :) But all is back up now (except a few missing posts I think) so we're back in action...
Just found this really useful tidbit, and thought I would post here to a) share and b) find later :)
http://www.die.net/musings/page_load_time/
Some interesting findings on how to improve page load times.