I'm really amazed how these "rich web clients" are popping up all over the place: GMail (anybody want an invite? ;-) ), Flickr, Tada-list, Bloglines and so forth. In some respects they are even easier to use than their desktop equivalents; Mail.app on my lovely PowerBook is really the sweetest mail client ever but... I still tend to use GMail more often. Same with iPhoto vs. Flickr. It's something about these apps that maintain the ease of use of a web interface with the responsiveness of a fat client one.

I guess it's time to really brush up on your JavaScript skills, so a couple of days ago I went down to the bookstore to pick up the book. JavaScript is really quite a lovely language, closures, dynamic typing and so forth.

Oh, and Ruby on Rails really rocks...