There's been more commits since this first post, so let's look at what's been merged:
Massive improvements to the blockchain handling code mean much faster syncing and verification. This was some stellar work by NoodleDoodle here. Several paths are now multithreaded. Note that the database format changed to allow faster lookups of some data, so if you were using it, you will need to export and reimport.
simplewallet's text output got changed to allow strings to be loaded from a file instead of hardcoded. It is using the Qt Linguist format, so simplewallet can be translated to any language. There are simple instructions in a README file. Either the Qt Linguist GUI can be used, or Transifex, if and when Monero uses it. Other tools aren't translated at the moment, as it's not clear the extra time is worth it.
More work was done on the blockchain export/import tools. The importer previsouly could not resize the database on the fly as the import was going on. This is now fixed, and the importer now runs flawlessly from start to finish, managing the blockchain database size as needed.
Last, a bug causing bitmonerod to hang got fixed, and some documentation and build tweaks went in.
