Bloglines Hell

ate my subscriptions. AAARGH! My carefully gathered OPML file has vanished and only a trace of the former 400+ fat feeds file remains. I hope they roll it back pronto, it's a major loss of productivity for me.

It hasn't occurred to me to back up the online services I use - I thought the whole point was that they do it for you. Plus until recently the majority wouldn't let you, pre cluetrain so to speak.  On the whole I like webservices, and as I'm moving to a new laptop just now I was thinking what a pain it is to try and move all your personal data - how much easier if it was all webservices. Think again.

PS: there used to be a software to move data between PCs, does the lazyweb know what that was?

Update: Customer Service reacted quickly, and the subs are back again. However the point stands - can you really trust ASP-style services with crucial data?