The strange way my memory works

(written by lawrence krubner, however indented passages are often quotes). You can contact lawrence at: lawrence@krubner.com, or follow me on Twitter.

I was at a job interview today and I said “Do you remember that essay that James Garret wrote in 2004, in which he coined the acronym ‘AJAX’ “?

Feeling uncertain about what I said, when I got home I decided to check my facts, and found that his name is actually “Jesse James Garrett“.

I find it strange that my memory would hang onto his middle name rather than his first name.

I am also surprised that the term “AJAX” was coined in 2005 — that seems surprisingly late to me, though I realize he was looking at products that Google had already released and so he was naming a behavior that was already in use.

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_James_Garrett
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