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[alexpgp]

Galina and I watched Species on the tube. I'd never seen it before, and my life is no fuller for having finally done so. The commercial breaks were filled with noise for something called Spy Girls, something of a cross between The Mod Squad, Charlie's Angels, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and Police Academy (there... I think that covers all bases).

Of course, my assessment is based on a mere two minutes of having watched the show, after which I couldn't take any more and had to leave the room.

Everyone under the age of 30 is out somewhere. Lee decided to go catch up with some high-school cronies, Drew went to play golf with Brady, and Shannon and Huntur went somewhere, but I don't know where.

The more I play with PHProjekt, the more I'm impressed. Time cards can be done retroactively, but the program will send "the boss" an email about it. That's a nice feature, one that eluded us at my former job (and which resulted in the design of a timecard system only its designer could love).

You can upload, download, and selectively make available various files from your machine. I can use this in my translation work to create an organized backup of my assignments, and I'm sure we can use this feature at the store, although we don't make use of many files there (who am I kidding... can I say "accounting"?)

One interesting thing about the app is this: suddenly, on my desktop, the interface is showing up in Russian. I didn't do anything to set this up, and I don't think there is anything in my browser that would cause the app to do this (although there may be something left over after I visit a site such as LJ, which is doing UTF-8). Interestingly enough, the browser tells me the page is encoded using Western European (Windows) encoding.

More clouds today, and I think the mountains got their fair share of rain today. It sprinkled a little around the house.

Time to put up the computer for the night and get some real rest.

Cheers...

P.S. Sasha had a real bad day today.

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[tamaraland.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm glad phprojekt looks useful to you. It seemed to be pretty versatile, after our site relaunch next week I'm going to sit down and pound it into something functional as well. I'm thinking of trying to turn it into a file storage system. User fills out a form with basic info on the document, then uploads the file. Obviously you wouldn't be able to full text search the document, but if we decide to use it outside, we can use google's uni and edu edition for that we've found. I think we may also be able to turn it into a collaborative workspace with a little tweaking.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

I'm now compiling a list of minor annoyances, some number of which may be solvable by tweaking a config file. I think I've also found one bug, in the RTS feature, where there does not seem to be any capability to enter a solution to a problem.

It's also about time I started to look and see if there are actually any serious security problems associated with the app. For it to be of maximum use to me, I'd want to have it looking out from a public server.

Cheers...

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[tamaraland.livejournal.com]

Obviously for us as well. Given that a few govs still pay me to try to beat their systems I should be able to determine that ASAP.