Hide Extended Network/Blog Area
To hide the space where the blog/extended network are add the code below in your About me section:
<style type="text/css">
table td table tr td.text table {visibility:hidden;}
table td table tr td.text table table, table td table tr td.text table table td.text {visibility:visible;}
td.text table {position:relative; top:-180px;}
td.text table table {position:static;}
</style>
Change 180 if You don't want your About me area in the middle of the page.
For displaying the section where the extended network/blog area used to be use the below code:
<style type="text/css">
table tbody td table tbody tr td.text table {visibility:hidden;}
table tbody td table tbody tr td.text table table, table tbody td table tbody tr td.text table table tbody td.text {visibility:visible;}
</style>