Ode to Yahoo message archive

The this and that today will mostly cover things like memories, words said , feelings felt and of course an ode to the super invention called yahoo message archive. The archived chat logs are more like photographs of conversations. The smilies add to the colour. Its like going back in time and catching glimpses of the daily snapshots of the past. There are the communications with friends and foes, rediscovering the crests and troughs of a relationship, the flavour of new love, the frustrations of a worklife, the plan of a weekend, the excitement of a new buy, the taste of a new dish. All the heee heee s, all the haa haa s, all the sniffs , all the aaarghhs. It captures tit bits of trifle fights, bits and pieces of uncanny silences...and while you read through it after long long time your dormant feeling are vibrated and rekindled by the "ding", "ding" which were buzz, buzz once upon a time. The ode is not fully complete if you dont give a special mention to the lovely faces of the smilies :-), :-(, :-*, :-8, :">. Extending the topic on smilies, I do take this opurtunity to mention the latest in messenger- the animated smilies. Digressing from a ode for a little while let me put a personal view to the floor too. Generally it is seen that the more complex the tool/technology/software/gadgets become, the more you start missing the simple nuances of life, but in the case of the animated smilies, things actually got better and coming back to my ode, the moving, yawning, smiling, kissing faces still keep doing their tricks and make you do a LOL all over again. So long live my database of memories through my yahoo message archive. They stay like my own little pandoras box which I will open and close and reopen to laugh and frown down memory lane.