As you’ll undoubtedly notice, I’ve made some major blog layout changes. I’m not in love with the return of the three-column layout, but I’ve concluded it’s a necessary evil, so that I can keep tweets on the homepage — thus keeping the site fresh when I’m not blogging much — while preventing them from overrunning the main body of the blog, as has been happening with increasing frequency. Bonus: this will help facilitate the auto-importing of Becky’s tweets — coming soon! [UPDATE: Becky auto tweet import now up & running!]

The whole direct tweet-to-blog thing has always been an uneasy and imperfect arrangement, all the moreso as I’ve become a more prolific tweeter. I find that concerns about an overrun homepage constantly affect both the way I tweet (there have been way too many tweets lately containing the characters *# — that prevents them from posting to the blog) and the way I blog. So I want to try something different. And I think I have the leeway to do so, since I see from my stats that 1024×768 is pretty much the minimum screen resolution of my blog audience, so expanding the page width from 835px to 985px hopefully won’t pose too much of a problem.

Anyway. bottom line, all of my tweets (and soon, Becky’s) will appear in the sidebar at right. A handful of selected tweets will occasionally appear in the main body of the blog, when I choose to emphasize them, along with FriendFeed links. (There’s more there right now than there will usually be, because we’re in a transitional phase.)

I’ll have more to say later, probably. For now, I’m still doing a lot of tinkering — this is definitely a work in progress. As always, comments and suggestions are welcome.

Heh.

Guest post by David K.

Clearly, based on the picture below, taken at Pac-10 media day, we can see how the new divisons are going to shake out (with Colorado and Utah split between the two):

Division A: Arizona, ASU, Cal, Oregon, Oregon State
Division B: Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State

What do you mean, it’s insane to base my conclusions on this completely out-of-context picture? What do you mean, those divisions make absolutely no sense whatsoever? This is a blog on the internet! What else is it for, but drawing baseless conclusions by taking things out of context that make no sense?!?

UPDATE BY BRENDAN: Alternate theory: the teams are listed in alphabetical order. :) Heh.

Guest post by David K.

An article in the Denver Post today mentions comments from Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe indicating that Colorado will depart after this year and join the Pac-10 in 2011 rather than 2012. I’ve gotta admit, the Pac-12 starting in 2012 had a nice symmetry to it, but it’s probably better for all involved that it happen sooner rather than later.

Here is a collection of several video clips (taken with an iPhone 4 wedged against the windshield) of our drive Saturday up and down the white-knuckle Mount Evans Road, which climbs to 14,130 feet. The “soundtrack” is the music that we were playing on our car stereo, mostly an assortment of patriotic songs (with a dash of Billy Joel thrown in), all at Loyette’s request. :) You can also hear Loyette and Loyacita in the background, as well as a few bits of commentary by Becky (driving) and me (passenging). Anyway:

The video is HD, so it should look quite good if blown up to full screen, though you may need to manually change the “360p” to “720p.”

P.S. We live here. :)

Slowed down to 300x actual speed:

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