I just won an auction on eBay for an X-Box with an mod chip so that I can watch MPEG video streams without needing a PC. The price I got it for was very good. I used Bid-O-Matic which is a free piece of software that places a bid a few seconds before the end of the auction. There are a few things I do not like about the software, but generally it is good for buyers. It is best where lots of similar items get sold allowing you to ignore one auction if the price goes too high and then move into the next one without getting into a bidding war. Of course this is not what the seller wants – and I think eBay needs to run a tightrope between making things good for the buyer and making them good for the seller.

I also watched an interesting Junkyard Wars this evenig – they were building gliders in only 10 hours. Not bad concidering we have spent a LOT more time than that working on the plane, and are nowhere near to actually flying. The flights were not all that long since the hill did not drop off fast enough, but apart from that the planes seemed not bad.