Auction sites are blocked by our corporate firewall. This prevents people from buying goods on company time and not associating purchased goods with our company (IP-tracing and all). It wouldn’t look good if our company’s IP was linked to the purchase of fake/stolen Tiffany & Co merchandise [link]

However, the biggest auction of the year – nay century is the FCC’s sale of the 1,099 licenses in the 700MHz spectrum. This colossal sale has the potential to shape the way this country communicates and we can all look in on it [link] . The icing on the cake is that the Java applet that displays the time, actually works on the Mac. Excelsior!