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Found two new teams to work on the project. By the results of their first work week we’ll see who’s going to complete the work. One team says they will do their best to meet deadline, second says that they will easily meet the deadline since they are going to use some GPL code. Not that I approved it, but I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. We’ll see how they will justify the use of it, which parts they are going to use and all that jazz…

Starting to work on two more web sites, one is accounting office, another is my own site, www.zealus.com - it needs to be moved to some database-driven engine, so I could introduce changes easily. Should have started with that…

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