State of the Art

I've just been introduced to AJAX, not the football club, but Asynchronous Javascript And XML. There's a very good essay on AJAX here from the people who came up with the name. Unusually for technology they're not the same people who came up with the idea - indeed it's not clear who did since it's really just plugging a number of existing technologies together in a new and interesting way.

Plus it's named after a football team - or maybe a Greek hero. Either way it's cool.