God bless him, Rush Limbaugh can hear again, thanks to a cochlear ear implant. He spoke to his brother over the phone who said that "He had no problem. He heard everything I said". Good news. Rush is going to make an announcement on his show Monday.

I'll try to link to the transcript of the show or a streaming audio version if there is one. Of course, I won't link to anything on Yahoo News again if I can help it, since their link in the post I linked to above has broken.

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Joel Spolsky: In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome. "In fact, if you've ever had to outsource a critical business function, you realize that outsourcing is hell. ... This principle, unfortunately, seems to be directly in conflict with the ideal of "code reuse good -- reinventing wheel bad." The best advice I can offer: If it's a core business function -- do it yourself, no matter what." Absolutely.

"Pick your core business competencies and goals, and do those in house. If you're a software company, writing excellent code is how you're going to succeed. Go ahead and outsource the company cafeteria and the CD-ROM duplication. ... If you have customers, never outsource customer service." - I can't believe anyone would think to outsource customer service.

"The only exception to this rule, I suspect, is if your own people are more incompetent than everyone else, so whenever you try to do anything in house, it's botched up. Yes, there are plenty of places like this. If you're in one of them, I can't help you." Oh yeah.

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Hey, I just noticed this old post on my weblog. Needless to say, Hosting Matters got back to me (actually, when I e-mailed they said they thought they got back to me earlier, but it must not have gone through for some reason), and I've been happy ever since CQHost, on the other hand, never got back to me after repeated e-mails.

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Yeah, Hosting Matters is awesome again Here's my newest post on their message board. Time to problem resolution: 22 minutes (Oh, and at 3 in the morning too).

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Holy crap Flangy is playing a lot of video games!

Also, he writes: "Have you seen the latest Mastercard Priceless ad? Apparently it's priceless to have a wuss kid who can't last the night away from home at a sleepover.

Suck it up, kid!"

Hey, I was one of those kids! Lol. I don't remember how old I was, but it was sometime in elementary school, I was invited to someone's huge birthday party sleepover. I didn't feel 'safe' staying there (these were the kinds of kids who made the first kid to fall asleep pee himself by putting his hand in warm (or was it cold?) water), so I decided to call home and leave. Those kids wound up being what I guess were the "cool kids" in the grade... looking back, I don't think I ever got invited to anything by them ever again I definitely don't regret leaving that night. While I was upstairs making the phone call they put nasty shit stained dirty underwear in my Alf sleeping bag which I found later. Trust me: I wound up with much much better friends afterwards

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Whoa, via the Python Daily-URL, Aspect Oriented Programming for Python with TransWarp. I don't totally grok AOP yet (well, at least not how it would actually work in a practical system), but I'm glad to see work being done on it, and in Python no less

Check out their IntroToAOP to get a short intro to Aspect Oriented Programming: "An "aspect" is an "area of concern" that cuts across the structure of a program. For example, data storage is an aspect. User interface is an aspect. Platform-specific code is an aspect. Security is an aspect. Distribution, logging, class structure, threading... they're all aspects."

Also check out the AOP section on my programming page I just linked to above.

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