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I think a some what misunderstood definition of AJAX.  Though Leads 360 makes a really good point that I never really thought about, AJAX can save you a significant amount of bandwith. 

Link to BrokerUniverse

James Comtois describes some of the new Point features we have worked on.

Link to BrokerUniverse

After reading about these major Security holes in Vista, I am going to start the process of rolling back to my previous version of windows, sigh maybe its time to give FreeBSD a try.

Charlie Brooker wrote a nice article yesterday detailing how he hates Macs and how the choice of actors for the UK version of "Hello, I'm a Mac" are stingingly accurate.  I have to agree

Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.

Now I personally feel dirty every time I have to use a Mac, dirty and homicidal. And I won't even get started about the one mouse button!  Nor do I buy this argument that hey are easy to use or more fun.  I mean Mac's don't come with Free Cell and they don't play any real games(until the game is ready for retirement, then they go visit mac users).

I am not even very impressed by the Mac's eye candy.  I have also found that if you have a problem on a Mac, they ostracize you, pretend you don't exist it seems like no one can have problems with the blessed Mac let alone find a solution to the problem.

In one of my greater moments of stupidity, I lost track of time and got ready to serve my juror summons the week after I was supposed to.  Which leads me to the need to write an apology letter and ask for a postponement of the summons.  So I start my letter with "I deeply regret to inform you that I missed my juror summons"  I know many apology letters start this way.  But what exactly do I regret? the the fact I have bad information that I need to tell you? Or the fact I have to tell you at all?  English WTF

I see from time to time a Google search for MicroFisch, now this is most likely some one unable to spell microfiche.  What boggles my mind (and no I cannot spell) Is that there are companies that sell microfisch and not microfiche(5600 ish).  Now does any one know what a MicroFisch is?  Other then my domain name.  If your not sure of the spelling and your spell check is no help type it in Google and see what you get, typically Google will tell you what you ment to search for better then any spell checker I have used.

Mark and the code rush gang have added a nice little screen cast of Refractor! asp.net refractoring

This is very neat.  The best part is that for those of you that don't have Code Rush/Refractor! Microsoft's ASP.NET team is picking up that tab for this set of refractors much the same way the VB team did.  I hear they will announce a download shortly.

After Reading Ricks troubles with OFX code generation I left a couple comments I thought would be useful for generating classes from xml/xsd.
XSDObjectGen from Microsoft. (vb or c#)
XSD.exe from Microsoft. (vb or c#)
XMLSPY from Altova. (Java, c++, c#)
CodeXS from Business Architects. ( c#) This is what i used for my MISMO mortgage application exporter. (follow the tools link.)

It's funny this idea that word and excel are good for things such as LOS or Closing/Servicing systems.
Take a look at Financial Services OBA

At the very least the diagrams are interesting.

Add AJAX to ASP.NET