Start it up!
Today I finally started the second-generation of my daily journal system. I have wanted to come up with a better way to do it, and this morning it seemed like a natural to simply keep the contents of the journal in a PostgreSQL database and update it as necessary. With this structure I now have to ability to search the database, as well as not having to worry about the format of the viewing page. It's all in PHP. Excellent work.
In the future I want to create a simplified way for entering the journal entries - as opposed to using pgaccess, as well as adding search and scan capabilities to this page. For searching, I'll probably just use a character string with date limits, and for scanning I think I'll allow the user to enter date ranges and see what's in the journal between them.
I've been looking for a new position as BankOne just isn't doing it for me anymore, and I had some really good talks this afternoon. I hope they turn out to be positions similar to what First Chicago was when I joined here. That was a wonderful place spoiled by BankOne.