KatrinaSafe.com — Day’s end

Looks like the guys behind KatrinaSafe.com have been putting it in overtime. My hats off to you and the hard work you’ve put into the site.

Well, we’re close to calling it a night here at the Austin MTC. Everyone is tired and honestly, some nerves are beginning to wear thin. That happens when you have a bunch of type A personalities in a high stress situation crowded into a small room all day working on very little sleep and a lot of caffeine. We’ve made really good progress … the Smart Client is ready to roll out tomorrow for use. It will be downloaded over the web and automagically updated, thanks to the brilliant work of Jim Keane. The past couple of hours have been just a slew of little tiny changes … things like getting all the validation correct, etc. etc. We should also be going live with Speech Server tomorrow sometime … we’ll be using it to allow evacuees to send messages to their loved ones (both email and voice) and also to allow folks that are looking for people to get notification when we’ve found them. [Read the rest]