HaloScan`s Out, BlogBack`s In

k, now after she alerted me about what the HaloScan ppl were hiding from me and after some enlightment from her as in what kindoff addvertisements u get on HaloScan i thought i needed some change again. after taking some help frm Google Baba and some other webSites the conclusion was that since i dint have any server where i could host this comment stuff myself, BlogBack seemed to be a better bet. i registered on there site and got started. this time twas over in a poof. thats bCoz of my prev experience which meant i knew the code inside out. twas all over in a couple of minutes. tehn i thought of importing the HaloScan comments into so i started to look for an export option in haloScan but invain. so theres another reason as to why haloScan sucks. but then i was like, even if there were an export option in haloScan and an import option in BlogBack; the chances of them following the same XML standard were scarce. and u bet i weren`t going to write an XSLT just for transfering 6 comments. so i just did them by hand and they are there now.
although i still would miss the nice feature that blogspot provides me, that of mailing all commetns to ur blog to any mail address that u may want. im of the school which believes that the disparate information on the net needs to eb brought under one umbrella for better(both quantative and qualitative) knowledge extraction. that also brings me to the point that gMail has been upgraded. and they have added support of Atom. so u can get ur feeds right in ur mail. thats going to be a boon for me. more centraliZed access for all the stuff i do. and hey if u dont have a gMail u neednt worry. yahoo has bought oddPost.com which has the coolest mail interface. they have support for drag and drop mails and subscription to RSS feeds and stuff. so dont loose heart. yahoo`s not far behind. better late than never.