Rather uncomfortable - Yahoo!

Got into the office this morning to find that my 'net homepage not functioning. I have a customised "My Yahoo!" page which doles up the latest news, exchange rates, the odd cartoon, etc.

I also have all my most-used links on it... which is where the trouble started. Didn't really need the news, but I had to get to some webpages in order to function. The handy links (Yahoo calls them Bookmarks) weren't there, and I have, typically, no obvious backup of the links (like in Favourites..duh).

It is all back up now, and I did survive, but it was another uncomfortable experience, like when your e-mail doesn't work, or, horrors, 'net access fails altogether. Isn't is stupid to rely on a third party to store something on the 'net for you, especially if you need it 24/7?

Which I suppose puts all of us who use Hotmail or Gmail as the primary e-mail service in the same bin.