Jakob Nielsen on AJAX

Sitepoint recently published an interview with Jakob Nielsen, in which he says that AJAX is basically “irrelevant for the vast majority of business web sites” but that “The very nerdiness of the name ‘AJAX’ gives [him] hope that it will be used for causes more worthwhile than those now characteristic of Flash.”

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Lost your cellphone charger? Ask at the front desk

So last Wednesday night, while I was travelling on business, I realized that my cell phone battery was dying, and I wouldn’t be home until Friday.

Unfortunately, I’d left my charger (normally packed in my laptop bag) plugged in to my desk at work.

On a whim, I decided to try the front desk, to see if one of the employees might have a Nokia charger I could borrow for a few hours.

The front-desk-person (what’s the appropriate polite term for these folks today?) told me to come on down and look through “the box.”

Turns out not only did they have a Nokia charger, which she informed me I could either take with me or just leave in the room when I checked out, they had two large plastic bins fulls of chargers.

Today I found this lifehacker post (yes, I am behind in reading my rss feeds) recommending the same.

Is lifehacker following me around, or am I just having a snowflake epiphany - one of those moments where you realize that you are not nearly as unique as you thought?