By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

Wow! RT @denverpost: Rockies’ 17-2 rout of the Cubs…11 straight hits: http://dpo.st/aN5AVt | Rox’ 2nd straight W after losing 8 in a row.

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

RT @franklinavenue: Good news, Masturbating Bear: NBC might let Conan take his ‘Late Night’ and ‘Tonight Show’ bits to TBS: http://bit.ly/aXNoI8

By Brendan Loy

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.

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

Echofon stores your previously used hashtags. When I type #P, this is the list of suggestions that comes up: http://twitpic.com/2a6n58. Heh.

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

RT @BreakingNews: Bank failure update: Oregon bank 5th of day shut; y-t-d total is 108 http://bit.ly/bsGoJq

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

“The NCAA’s rules are often confusing, redundant, outdated, maddeningly impractical or just plain stupid.” #omgfacts http://es.pn/c7Ys7a

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

RT @DamonLindelof: Dear Aliens Judging Our Civilization: Jersey Shore premiere had TRIPLE the viewers of Mad Men premiere. We await forthcoming annihilation.

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

Pac-10 ponders annual kickoff game at Rose Bowl: http://bit.ly/cOH0H5. Big Ten as opponent? Screw that; redundant. Make it Pac-10 vs. SEC!!!

By Becky Loy

Ate a BLT for lunch. All is right with the world. #ilovebacon

By Brendan Loy

Heh.

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

Loyette this morning, while holding a balloon: “Daddy, can you show me how to go up in the sky?”

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

The amount of rigarmarole & runaround that Bank of America just put me through to get a $75 bonus I clearly qualified for should be illegal.

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

2009 recession was deeper than previously thought: http://yhoo.it/cDwEKM

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

Heh. RT @gadsdenista: Finally, Obama bows to somebody who deserves it. http://bit.ly/cp0yXM

By Brendan Loy (Twitter/FriendFeed)

RT @techdirt: An Open iPhone App Market That Doesn’t Require Jailbreaking… And Which Apple Can’t Stop http://dlvr.it/3C3RB

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.