Hamarana

I’m subscribed to a couple of Macintosh specific Yahoo groups. Were it not for the need to have a Yahoo ID to join, I wouldn’t have bothered with that, either.

Sometime around the 6th of this month, Yahoo changed the “look” of the email. Now it was supposed to be easier to read blah blah blah… but to my mind the only change that occurred was the resetting of preferences for one to receive HTML mails. I went to check in my account and it seemed that was not the only thing that was reset.

Now, my preferences NOT to allow just anyone to add me to their group (it can be done without your permission with these settings) had been reset to allow this behaviour.

So: If you are in a Yahoo group… make sure your settings are as YOU want them, not as Yahoo wants them.

I hate this kind of thing.

I’ve become so engrossed in trying to make a buck or two online, and failing, that I have all but abandoned Hamarana to its own devices. In truth I am bored with the blog format… there’s a need to be constantly updating and I have lost the urge to do this.

I’m contemplating a switch to Joomla or something similar, and incorporating everything that is currently on site… the moneymaking stuff, the pseudo-techie stuff, the personal etc. So the site will still be “dynamic” in the sense that there will be changes from time to time, but I won’t have the constancy of updates of the blog.

Hamarana has always been a work in progress… and it won’t ever be “finished”

I’ll save out the theme for WordPress (but not before making sure there aren’t any real bugs) and may offer it for download… sometime.

Any comments? Does anybody even read what I write these days? Does anybody give a rat’s behind what’all I do here?

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I saw something about this site on one of those “current affairs” shows the other night (I’m using quotes there because theres not a lot of current affairs in them, IMO).

Auction-Australia has been set up by a young man as a direct competitor to eBay. The rationale for having done so is as follows:

Why list on Auction-Australia???
There are three very important reasons why you would benefit by using Auction-Australia over other auction web sites.

1. Cheaper
* Auction-Australia has cheaper listings than eBay and most other sites.
* Auction-Australia does not charge commissions on the sale of your item.
2. Fairer
* Auction-Australia has a fairer system for bidding. Instead of the auction artificially ending at a set time, our auctions are extended by one minute every time another bid is placed. This feature means that programs such as “Auction Sniper” will not work on Auction-Australia. This is the way auctions naturally work in the marketplace.
* Auction-Australia does not operate proxy bidding, eliminating a lot of the problems associated with this feature.
3. Australian
* With the majority of listings being Australian, it is easier for Auction-Australia to prosecute fraudulent sellers and buyers who operate on this site. Auction-Australia has a zero policy to fraudulent activities and will not only suspend the account immediately, it will also report all offences to the Australian Federal Police.
* Auction-Australia is a wholly owned and operated Australian auction site. With our main competitor turning over in excess of $200 million per year in Australian listing fees, this translates to a lot of money leaving our country every year. All Auction-Australia’s profits stay in Australia.

And with all the scamming going on at eBay (and set to increase as more spammers and scammers hit the market) I rather think that supporting this site is the best thing any Aussie can do.

I’m joining as soon as I finish typing this post

Check out Auction-Australia now