The Miniblog sidebar to the left used to be a Twitter feed. However, we all know the problems with using Twitter for the last couple of weeks (months?). Still, I like Twitter' simplicity and didn't want to stop using it. However, everytime it went down, the site's Drupal feedreader freezes up and prevents this blog from rendering. After looking at a couple of options, I decided to use Friendfeed...

http://friendfeed.com/toddogasawara

...to aggregate my Twitter and Tumblr posts to use for the Miniblog. This seems to have solved the freeze-up problem when Twitter goes down (often these days) and lets me add Tumblr to the mix.