I wish it was easy to quickly attempt to retrieve a CSS page, since it's pretty important to the presentation of a webpage. I understand when a webpage has to give up trying to fetch something, but come on. I find it usually gives up on ads because they're always some of the slowest things to load, thus holding up the whole page while you wait for something pointless. I know there's a setting somewhere to load the page as you get it, I think Firefox and Chrome do that by default. Whoever made ads that prevent the rest of the page from loading should be shot. Anyway, there should be an easy way to reload CSS pages without having to refresh the whole page. Though if page caching is doing its job right, reloading the page should attempt to get that CSS page again while everything else is retrieved from cache.
If you're using Internet Explorer 8 for some reason other than "my business/workplace tells or forces me to", at least consider downloading a backup browser.
I'm sure you already know, but I'm on HughesNet (the worst ISP I've ever known, and it's satellite internet). It has a habit of bombing out pages instantly, complaining that the DNS server isn't found. After refreshing it a few times, it will finally take it and attempt to connect. I'd like to know why that is. Maybe the satellite has to wait a while to get a connection before it connects with HughesNet's DNS (you're locked into that, you can't use OpenDNS or Google's DNS)? I wish I could know when it isn't connected so it can go ahead and connect without me waiting two whole minutes whenever I want to do something online. Which is all the time.
