[geeks] Ya-HoooooO!

[nate at portents.com]

I've been a yahoo user since, well, since they let people first log in. 
About a year ago my yahoo email started giving me this error every time I
tried to bring up my inbox:

Sorry for the inconvenience.
You've stumbled upon a temporary problem we're having with Yahoo! Mail.
Usually this problem gets resolved quickly, without you doing a thing. In
fact it may be taken care of now.
    * Try pressing the Reload or Refresh button on your browser, or
logging out and then back into your Yahoo! account. Hopefully that
will take care of things.
If that doesn't fix the problem, please be patient while we sort it out
and try again shortly. The fact that you're reading this page means we've
been automatically notified of the issue, and chances are we're working on
it now.
    * If you think you've been more than patient and tried the tricks
above, feel free to contact Customer Care about Error Code 1.
Thanks,
The Yahoo! Mail Team

About every other month I have contacted "Customer Care about Error Code
1", gotten an automated reply (to a non-yahoo email address I've
provided), followed by another email about a day later saying my email
should work, but it doesn't, ever.

I'm sure things will improve once Microsoft buys them.

- Nate

> Apparently, Microsoft thinks Yahoo is worth more than 45 MySQLs - they've
> just offered $45 Billion to purchase Yahoo.
>
> Heck, if you held Yahoo stock before it was announced, your shares are now
> worth
> 60% more than they were on Thursday...
>
> Link to story: http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080201/microsoft_yahoo.html?.v=14
>
> Yowza - this will be interesting.
>
> Lionel