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The Ajax development model is, without a doubt, the next big thing in web application development. Ignore at your peril. Google put Ajax in action (before it even had a name) on Google Suggest and the unbelievably cool new Google Maps. The arguments for making OS-dependent “fat clients” have diminished substantially, now that rich interaction is 100% possible in plug-in-free web applications.

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Hey, cyberfriends… A couple announcements about the site. First, all the photo galleries are back. I’m managing (and web-exporting) them with Picasa2 and hosting them myself. Seems I’ve got plenty of storage space to handle it. This works out pretty well. I’ll also be posting pics on Flickr (including camera phone pictures, which won’t show up on this site). Flickr offers some neat features like RSS feeds, so check that out.

Secondly, I’ve upgraded to a new version of WordPress for managing the blog. Of course, this doesn’t really affect you guys much, except it’s got a handy new way of handling comment moderation. If you’ve had to deal with the email confirmation process in the past, that’s gone now. Spamming and general jackassery will still get filtered, even better than usual, but friendly frequent posters will now be able to post immediately without moderation. Hooray!

Finally, I’ve added a “hosting” page, where you can sign up to host your site on my server. Now, why would you want to do this? Well, if you just want cheap hosting, you probably don’t, since there are cheaper services around. Primarily this is for people whose sites I develop and manage (as kind of a package deal) but, hey, if you want some hosting and want to be able to personally complain to me if something breaks, it’s open to everyone. Check it out.

OK, that’s all for now. Hopefully some new, useful, content will be coming soon. Imagine that!

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1. Put your entire MP3 collection on both your work and home computers
2. Arbitrarily decide your iPod should “autoSync” with your work computer
3. Realize that your MP3 collection is taking up way too much space on your work computer, and figure you’ll just start listening straight from your iPod
4. Delete your entire MP3 collection from your work computer
5. Forget to turn off AutoSync
6. Plug iPod into work computer, with great anticipation of listening to your fantastic music collection.

OK, this was totally my fault, but would it have killed Apple to throw in an “Are you SURE you want to delete your entire 30 MB music collection off of the iPod, you dummy?” message box?

Of course, I can go back home and set that computer up to autoSync, so I’m only sans musique for a day, but it’s still a bummer.

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