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Joel signs up for an OpenID live on the podcast.\u003C/p>\n\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\n\u003Cp>The importance of proper \u003Ca href=\"http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2007/11/26/openid-ax/\">OpenID attribute exchange\u003C/a> -- so you can store your avatar image, URL, birthday, address and so forth in one place and have it handed over automatically to websites from your OpenID provider. Without this, OpenID is much less attractive.\u003C/p>\n\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\n\u003Cp>A discussion of Eric Sink's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.ericsink.com/entries/c_morse_code.html\">C and Morse Code\u003C/a> -- isn't programmer time spent learning C better spent learning how to communicate and understand the business domain they're working in? There's a deeper topic of Systems Analyst vs. Programmer here that we'll have to dig into.\u003C/p>\n\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\n\u003Cp>Reminder: Joel will be in Portland keynoting \u003Ca href=\"http://en.oreilly.com/rails2008/public/content/home\">RailsConf\u003C/a> later this week.\u003C/p>\n\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\n\u003Cp>Joel wants people to write in about their preferred password management solutions.\u003C/p>\n\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>As usual, thank you for all the questions and for the Wiki edits! 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