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Researching globalization and localization at work. Primarily as make-work, at this point, because until the parent application stabilizes somewhat, spending significant time on figuring out the minutae of how it works is about as useful as trying to validate error messages in Arabic without reading the language, because every other build it seems to do something i thought i'd gotten pinned down differently- not to mention that now that they've gotten my office-mate a machine on which it'll run, he gets different performance in the same build than i do. At least this will be long-term useful, as i find i18n and l10n stuff fascinating, and if i don't put it to use here, it'll be a refresher for interviewing for loc and globalization positions in the near future.