woot! word has it that monday, yahoo will write a “sorry” to microsoft. now let’s just hope they don’t get rid of our search advertising (and, therefore, search in general) to google… as i mentioned before, the best option here is to tough it out this period of time, and things will come back up.
in lolcat terms, courtesy of the flickr anti-microsoft group: this picture is awesome 
yahooza linked two funny articles about the whole y! ordeal… i especially like the first one, and the second one is funny too but has bad language, so if it offends you, consider yourself warned:
on a more serious note on the same subject, the techcrunch article, “decision time for yahoo,” is a more serious (and perhaps realistic) analysis of the situation. until i read this article, i never really knew that there could be lawsuits for violation of fiduciary duty (which basically entails that you look out for your shareholders before looking at your own interests).
if it weren’t for this, i would have to think that yahoo’s decision would be easy – be patient and the storm will pass.
so there’s a bunch of speculation about y! being bought out by microsoft. while i have no idea what will end up happening, i think that at the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter.
when you’re low enough in the food chain (a “peon,” in warcraft2 terminology, part of the work force), you wake up in the morning and mutter, “ready to work,” and go and do whatever they tell you to do. then at the end of the day, you get your check. whether that check is from y! or microsoft, does it really matter? not really…
that having been said, i’d choose to develop under linux/bsd using open source technologies over windows development any day.
i guess since it’s already been made public on techcrunch, i can post about this here… but yes, y! answers development is moving to europe. we already had some developers there, but now it will be driven entirely out of europe.
as for the us developers, we were all moved onto another project. while this is a change that i personally welcome (it’s nice to have something new to work on every once in a while, esp if you’re currently in a lull with what you are doing), it is kind of sad because answers was sort of like a child to many of the developers. although i wasn’t there from the very beginning of its initiation, i was there early enough and for long enough to feel this way.
in other y! news, i found this to be great. it’s about time
so i usually bookmark things both on del.icio.us and on myweb2, especially because myweb’s search is a lot better than del.icio.us’s at the time being. so i had a bookmarklet that would bring up both save dialogs and i would save in both. recently, i tried to bookmark something, and got:
i guess it maxes out close to 5000 bookmarks…
my name was mentioned on the messenger blog in this post – check it out.
yesterday, i got in on the yahoo mail beta by using the tricks mentioned on several web sites. i like it actually, despite the fact that some of the people commented on some of those sites saying its nothing compared to gmail… i think yahoo did a good job, and it certainly is a lot better than the hotmail beta in my humble opinion which barely works under firefox…
this morning, i read an interesting interview with marc allen. i don’t really know who he is, just that he’s a multi millionaire… he makes some interesting points throughout the interview… the three points that struck me the most were: 1. with regards to money, he says, “It is a very, very good servant but a terrible master.” 2. he says that you should save at least 10% of your salary monthly, and save more if you can. he says that once you’re able to live off 90% of your salary, save another 10% and give it in charity, saying that those two steps are “great keys to a better life and a better world.” 3. he says that all it takes to becoming a millionaire today is intention.
i also like his work schedule… 4 days a week, not going in to work before 11, taking mondays off, dedicating sundays for family, etc…
overall, i was just impressed by his way of thinking about money as a utility, as something that can improve society. i wish someone would tell this man about islam and its teachings with respect to money, people, and societies. the interview is a great read overall.
i am starting to really like yahoo. besides having a good taste and aquiring del.icio.us (no pun intended 
), they released a pretty neat user interface library, which contains some utilities for web development with ajax and such. i glanced at it a bit, looks really cool and plan on playing with it later on. best of all, its open source!
by the way, if you don’t have a del.icio.us account, get one now! here is my del.icio.us (i still need to integrate it into this blog at some point). for those who haven’t used it, del.icio.us is a (social?) bookmarking service – you can look at mine for an example. i have a button in my browser, and whenever i come across an interesting link, i click it to add that particular site to my del.icio.us.