ARGH! I hate TradeMe!!! I’m turning in to my father. I’m trying to get a replacement for odyssey but I’m finding all these other toys. Like a 38RU server rack, or a slightly smaller… both very much on the desired list (its a geek thing).

Thing is, if I buy one of these racks, I’m going to have to wait to replace odyssey. If I wait to replace odyssey, all hell befalls me and my internet experience. :-|

So I am now forcing myself in to a strict regime of NO BROWSING until I lose an auction. And then, very limited browsing. Unfortunately, those racks are in the same category I’m looking for a replacement machine in. :-| Dammit!

As soon as odyssey is replaced, I’m enacting a new firewall rule that will block all TradeMe traffic to and from my own computers.

I will not become addicted like my father and 2 of my brothers. I refuse to give in to TradeMe and stop hating them.

In other news, I thought I’d spruce up the site a little using some Mozilla/Gecko only CSS to add a few extra touches here and there. Nothing spectacular, but little things like rounding the corners of blockquotes to match the corners of the white page. Basic stuff really. Most of it you probably won’t even notice unless you loaded up another browser and scrolled the page side by side.

Its not that I’m trying to deliberately break CSS standards, its just that Firefox is my browser of preference and there are a few little touches I’d like to add. I can do it easily in Firefox or I can sit down and write a bunch of extra code to make it work in all browsers and not break CSS standards. And quite frankly, I’ve just given up caring now. Especially given the site doesn’t look any different in other browsers to what it did before.

Think of it as a <!–[if IE] [endif]–> for Mozilla. in the same way I put those really annoying banners up for IE users ;-) It not only makes the site look better in Firefox, its even more incentive for IE users to switch ;-) Or just not bother coming here ;-) Mind you, the massive scrolling Firefox banner that only IE users can see is probably doing a pretty good job of driving them away on its own. ;-)

So yeah.. If you’re a Firefox user, you’ll see a few minor improvements that do make a difference, even if you don’t notice them. And if you’re an IE user, it still looks the same as it ever did, and the massive Firefox banner is still going to scroll across the top of your screen. ;-)