The time has been for all......

For years, I had used various news collectors and sites that promised to build the greatest personal portal an ape could ever want. Never truly satisfied with the various options out there, an evolutionary process was apparent however. I bided my time, living with the lies of perfection and hoping for something better.
I fondly remember starting with Yahoo settling for the twenty or thirty sites I could stick on one of a few templated pages, and changing the colors to reflect my "bad coffee" / "good coffee" moods. I thought this was the greatest possible portal available - who could beat the mighty leaders!?
Then the Linux geek starting rumbling in my throat and, for months, I looked at the clippers there but eventually thrown it up.... rather i was going for easy yet majestic one!
Dejected, I returned to the smaller, but functional Yahoo. It slowly became a scar. My interests were changing, and those portals wasn't following them. I grew listless, and cast off the shawl of "portal", content to spending hours a day going through bookmarks for my news.
The sky turned blue again the day I found this page. They didn't try to force pre-jarred content down my throat. They pointed me to a small box, said "type in the site you want", and allowed me to clip parts of that site into one page. Immediately, I spent a weekend splicing all of my bookmarks into here. When I finally finished, my daily routine was shortened by an hour or more. Suffice it to say now that years later, around the same time I was falling in love with "my page". Different tools were released to read and write pages, aggregators and sites were beginning to integrate and share headlines, and I started to reinvestigate the options available. I shook in my boots: this was good! I focused all my energies on it... once again, my weekend was spent tweaking, hemming, and hawing.
A month later, my enthusiam was stronger for the next stage of syndication evolution. The development was a wonderful piece of work, but little things here and there were slowly contributing to a nagging sense of unease. There was something that bugged me about individuality, a collection of "should have's" and "wished for" that seemed too fickle to be acted upon.
Now that i got almost eveything done.... (from bringing my page to reach out to the world out there) I had now got to scrap in the everything i have been longed for. The people allaround appeared rather suddenly one day and nicely solidified a firm distinction between "I wish there was..." and "Hey! I'll roll my own!". See, ever since the Leh geek starting awakening; realization dawned: I could screamed what I wanted! A email exchange with friends (how they codes with only three fingers is beyond me) solidified the lust. The sky and sun turned cheerful blue.
Don't jump to conclusions, however. I don't believe this to be the next step of the evolutionary process. I consider it a step toward bringing concerned aggregators to the collectors and gatherers of tips. There's some unique individual out there who knows the year ahead of Leh, he just needs to be pushed in the right direction. And with the ease and happiness of the friendly locals, maybe all will turn on their proverbial lightbulb.
After that realization, Leh looked busting strongly ahead, focussing on tourists paradise, environment friendliness and removing and fixing the desires of curios onlookers.
The place is for you and me. It's for my mom, the mistresses I can't believe I mentioned, and the 30 year old gardener who cries when she commits illegal operations. Whereas Leh is a wonderland for the many more, it is accessible to the neophyte, yet lovable to the comman.
And if you don't like it, tough... I do.