Ugh, just when I was getting all smug about our progres with CRUD operations and how we've designed a rediculously simplistic yet powerful approach to our new Javascript framework at the office, my co-worker finds this and asks, "Hey, why aren't we doing it this way?"
http://osteele.com/archives/2008/02/synchronizing-client-models
And then I realize we're just not doing enough. Good blog post, though.