I had built up quite a repertoire of posts in my earlier Yahoo 360 blog and I had to let go of them when I switched to Word Press. I had no idea that Yahoo 360 was shutting down for good and when I got an email from them asking me to shift all my stuff, I was feeling saddened. When I had made the switch to WordPress, there was no option to import posts from Yahoo. So, I had made a new beginning then.

But today I got to know that they were allowing us to import all our posts into WordPress from Yahoo. And I went right ahead and did it! So now, all my older posts are intact and safe. I was just reading a couple of old ones from the Yahoo blog and laughing like anything, reading about Saboor’s antics! I had started that blog sometime in 2005, and man, four years back, life was SO different! I’m glad I started the Yahoo 360 blog (Sowm, I have you to thank for that!) because all this part of my life would have gone undocumented.

Anyway, all my friends out there who had Yahoo 360 blogs, its time you did the same unless you haven’t already done it and I’m belatedly crowing about this!

One more thing, I had no idea you could do so many things with Gmail. See, what I mean is that I never check my Yahoo mails. They always take ages to load and I don’t have the time for them. But recently I learnt that I could download all my Yahoo mails into my Gmail account through POP and label it separately. So what I mean is that if I hadn’t done this, I wouldn’t have read the Yahoo mail about Yahoo 360 shutting down (although it’s still way off in July) and I might have lost all those posts forever! Yay to Gmail! And to Open Source software like WordPress which gives us so much freedom. (I’ve got Jun to thank for this interesting analysis of all things related to software on his blog which he has given the unlikely title of Ruminating Muse)

Ciao till then! It’s a lovely Saturday and <groan> I have to be at work! <sigh>