I am currently trying to get my head around Javascript, AJAX and Internet Explorer but until something useful comes of it here are some links that caught my eye this week:

• You spend ages setting up an IVR system and someone goes and posts details of how to drop through to an agent
• A near perfect VB <-> C# code translator
• Vikram on a SQL Server replication bug
• Tom, another Exony employee, has started blogging (Tom, where is your feed icon?)

Actually, Tom knows all about the finer points of Javascript so hopefully some useful entries from him will point the way.

Also, it's my birthday next week and just in case anyone reading from my family doesn't know what to get me then a white iPod nano would be very much appreciated. If that is beyond your budget then some DVD's I haven't got are:

[Edit: Added Donnie Darko for Laura.]

[Edit: I now have Star Wars and have seen Hitchhikers and Batman so won't need them.]