Tsunami Software

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So this is pretty cool. The content management software that I help write is going to be used to aid the tsunami relief efforts.

Here's the story.

IBM is donating a bunch of hardware and software for tsunami relief efforts.

Part of what they're doing (though it doesn't say it on that page) is donating a box with our software installed on it that will be used to track photos and fingerprints of children so they can be identified (hopefully).

My coworker was up late last week writing an exporter for the fingerprint database to our import format.

I think it's cool to know that software I helped write will be used to aid disaster victims. As my friend and former coworker said when I told him about it, "This makes my day. Much more rewarding than 'Our software saved company X $Y'."