That only is there if you have added a certain amount of stuff to the database.
I just got on this morning, I thought I made great strides with the homepage yesterday, but Im not even going to go on today getting myself worked up. I have to stay away from the site until this far left thing is fixed. I dragged my screen over, so at least the text would be in the middle of the screen, now I cant get it back for everything else I do.