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Steve Jobs says we should ditch DRM...

I've been playing with the new AJAX extensions quite a bit lately, and overall I'm impressed. In terms of doing post-back-ish type stuff, it's so ridiculously easy to do everything you did before, only without having the full page refresh. That makes you look like an all-star for almost no cost.

I'm a huge Bill Gates fan, and would go as far as to say he was the first reason I went to Mix06 last year. But this quote has me a little concerned...

While this is largely something that satisfies my ego, I wanted to share that CoasterBuzz.com is now “out” as a Federated Media partner, the firm that represents Digg, Ars Technica, and the ever popular Ask A Ninja. It’s pretty exciting to be in the company of sites like that, even though mine is so much smaller in scale.

Obviously I missed the boat somewhere along the line. I realized today that I've never used FormsAuthentication in an ASP.NET v2.0 application before. As it turns out, it doesn't work the same as it used to.

I've developed a strange problem. I'm using FormsAuthentication to login users. I persist the .ASPXAUTH cookie and set its expiration to today plus 30 days.

Like most developers, I work with other developers. Most are computer sciency and kick ass when it comes to class design and architecture. The problem with this is that this creates a UI design culture that is not always optimal.

Mark Cuban can be obnoxious, but I'm right behind him on this one: