It’s not often that your email can make you feel sick but seeing a returned as undeliverable email that was supposed to have originated from my account and which was a Barcalays Bank scam fills me with a mixture of rage and horror.

>:-(

Checking my traffic logs for the past few days I have found a huge pile of IPs with Afrinet domains apparently sending and receiving packets from my coomputer plus a huge number of malformed and bogus packets today. I seem to have sorted that out or its stopped of its own accord.

Any sensible ideas about what I should about it? I have already run a virus checker and I have a firewall and my browser is supposedly so well defended that I can barely view a web page without having to enable a scripts for every dozen words on the page.

The remaining choices seem to be (a ) ignore it – the most likely given my life track record ( b) complain to my ISP (c ) do something else that I haven’t thought of. So – anyone who’s reading this, and has any ideas at all, please tell me.

Found this from the sitepoint link posted in a previous article:

Ajax is meant for those situations where you have a small part of a web page that you want to update with information from the server without reloading the whole page (often a single word or a small set of links). If you are looking to replace more than say 10% of the page then you need to rethink whether Ajax is the appropriate way to do it. At least some of the Ajax that people are currently writing is more so they can demonstrate that they can write it rather than that the page actually needs it. Once Ajax ceases to be flavour of the month then it will go back to being used only in those situations where it is appropriate (the way people used to use it several years ago before the name Ajax was applied to this particular technology).

(Posted by felgall – URL: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums /showthread.php?t=371856)

I thought that was an excellent summation.

Today, I have been wasting most of my life on the sitepoint forums. Not wishing to be some one who encourages others to while away ten hours reading about things they will never put into practice I am loathe to suggest you visit them yourself.

However, being someone who likes to encourage others to idle their lives away – I have to say, check them out yourself if you dont believe me 🙂

Sorry to keep beating this one – but the site at http://www.lastcraft.com/blog/index.php?p=19 “Listen Kids, AJAX is not Cool” is excellent. If you are planing to ajax-ify your website or application then it is well worth adding the Last Craft site to you list of research material (you do research dont you?). This article highlights some of the more common AJAX-esque mistakes and, to an extent, typifies what is at fault with the web 2.0 buzz.

In a well written manner the article goes into what is wrong with most of the AJAX demos and, alludes to the general pointless-ness of it all. For me, the idea behind the new technology is to make life easier and improve the “user interface.” From what I have seen to date, AJAX does neither.

Strangely, when you read the comments it appears some people have taken an active dislike to the author, is this die-hard AJAXers defending themselves? 🙂