Some of us choose to see the web the way we like it. For me I mostly abandon all the author's style's and apply my own.
So the most important thing for me is a big fat h1 and ideally having the main content first. So his post was very readable for me.
Each to there own, content is king; who cares what it looks like! I learnt a precious lesson after my pc died and I replaced it for a few months with a 133mhz running lynx over dial up!
If you are a designer/author place a hidden 'jump to content' link if you have extraneous fluff on the page please.