function getTweets() {
	new TWTR.Widget({
		profile: true,
		id: 'twtr-profile-widget',
		loop: true,
		width: 700,
		height: 100,
		theme: {
			shell: {
				background: '#3f5988',
				color: '#ffffff'
			},
			tweets: {
				background: '#f3f3ee',
				color: '#00008b',
				links: '#0000ff'
			}
		}
	}).render().setProfile('azsmashbc').start();
}

function getBlogs() {
	new Ajax.Request('blog.php', {
		method: 'get',
		onSuccess: function(transport) {
			document.getElementById('blogsDiv').innerHTML = transport.responseText;
		},
		onFailure: function() {
			document.getElementById('blogsDiv').innerHTML = "Unable to retrieve our blog updates at the moment.  Please try again later.";
		}
	});
}

function getXMLHttpRequestObject() {
	var httpRequest = null;

	if (window.ActiveXObject) {
		try {
			httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
		} catch (e) {
			try {
				httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
			} catch (e) {
			}
		}
	} else if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
		httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();

		if (httpRequest.overrideMimeType) {
			httpRequest.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
		}
	}

	return httpRequest;
}


function getXMLDocumentObject() {
	var xmlDocument = null;

	if (window.ActiveXObject) {
		xmlDocument = new ActiveXObject("Msxml.DOMDocument");
	} else if (document.implementation && document.implementation.createDocument) {
		xmlDocument = document.implementation.createDocument("", "doc", null);
	}

	return xmlDocument;
}