So I have been following this Microsoft/Yahoo! merger with great interest. Having a deep-seated hate of all most things Microsoft, I’m not interested in them taking a run at Yahoo!

Truth be told, Yahoo! is kinda of dead to me apart from del.icio.us and flickr so I have had a change of heart. I’d actually like to see Microsoft buy Yahoo! This would prove my theory that in the world of Steve Balmer, one plus one can indeed equal 1.5.

The story has cooled in the weeks since Yahoo! rejected the offer. I assume that most others have moved on to more topical subjects. Balmer seems happy to sit and wait for Yahoo to run out of options before swooping in.

In news of a more personal nature, I am not enjoying work these days due to melon-headed co-workers, a set in stone feature set and a hard drop date.

On the positive side, I’m due to be getting larger than expected tax refund and have naturally gravitated to the Apple store lest my thigh become burned with all that cash. “One MacBook Pro please”

A warning sign that you might be in for a bad user experience. Opening the Windows Vista box

It appears that my del.icio.us posts might come to a screeching halt now that Microsoft has made a bid to buy Yahoo!

I thought it was bad when Yahoo! bought Flickr and then del.icio.us but to their credit, Yahoo! let my two favorite sites carry on, mostly as they were. I can only imagine what a nutcase like Balmer would do once he gets his sweaty hands on them.

Time will tell but history tells us that they will cock this up much as they have done past acquisitions. Microsoft is not a customer oriented company, they’re an enterprise company. They have a terrible record when it comes to customer service, customer privacy, and customer choice.

It’s not that I’m worried that the world is coming to an end, I just don’t like the idea.