Happy Valentine's Day! Welcome to the beta test of ProjectX, otherwise known as the Blue's News version of Blammo, the game news system being created by my friends RonSolo and Bagpuss, the mad geniuses behind the BlueTracker .plan Summaries and Webdog, and Blammo's main programmer, furn (who showed amazing patience as we conferred on this yesterday in what amounted to an all-day transatlantic phone call). As I mentioned when I tempted fate by predicting we might be ready for a beta today, the change is hopefully almost completely transparent at the moment, but the difference behind the scenes is significant, as the stories on this page now are database generated. While things seem under control, there are a couple of glitches I know about already (if you use the headlines in the left frame, the finger insert disappears, the target links on the archive at the bottom are whacked out, as is the archive page, and the yesterday links in the headlines), and, of course, there's the possibility something unforeseen will pop up, so if everything blows up at some point, that may be what has happened. Going forward, for those that don't want change, not much will be different (this was a top priority), but the database will allow a bunch of neat functionality to be added that will be quite helpful, and I'm really excited about what we should be able to do with this. More on that as we go forward. Excelsior!