Welcome to My New Location

I've packed my bags and moved to Blogspot.com. As you can see, this page is a whole lot better than what I had before.

Yahoo! 360⁰ is still in beta testing, and it has a number of shortcomings. For one thing, it doesn't support a number of HTML functions. Whenever I link to an outside site, like Media Matters, I prefer to have it come up in a new window so that my page isn't interrupted. I couldn't do that on my old site. Another big problem was that Yahoo! wants to develop their own virtual community on that page, so ideally Yahoo! members would have their own 360⁰ page and link it to their e-mail and Messenger functions and create a communications system. This is all well and good, but it is exclusive to the point that only registered Yahoo! members can post comments on the blog. The blog is only a cursory element on the Yahoo! 360⁰ page as opposed to Blogger where the blog is the thing.

When I first saw Yahoo! 360^{0 BETA} under "More Yahoo! Services" on the Yahoo! home page about a week ago, I clicked on it out of curiosity. I saw that it was a pre-formatted webpage, part of which was a blog. I had thought about starting my own blog for a while, but for some reason just seeing this new Yahoo! feature gave me the impetus to do it. So for that I am grateful. I've re-posted all of my previous entries from the old page with their original time stamps, and now that I'm here I still pledge to post daily, being as disciplined about that as I am about flossing my teeth. Hopefully it won't always be boring.