I spent some time knocking about the HTML for the top of the news page, and was able to remove some of the lists that usually fall between the two days of news, made possible by the loonygames summer hiatus (so no need for the new on loonygames listing for a while). Turns out I had the font size in my browser whacked, so if you were wondering why headlines had been wrapping oddly lately, it's because they still looked right to me. A quick rundown on some other site stuff in the works here: First off, the results of last week's contest will go up along with the new contest over the next couple of days, it got lost in the shuffle of QuakeCon, and I want whatever day it gets posted to be the regular day from now on (we also have hopefully overcome my interference in the prize distribution that will get any still-unsent prizes out the door). We seem to have gotten the wacky SQL errors under control that will lead to the unveiling of some other new features, and we may have our first messageboard online as soon as today, I'll talk a bit about the plan for messageboards going forward when that happens. Also fairly imminent is the news customization previously discussed, which would probably have killed the site if we launched it before the database errors were solved, but now that the errors have abated we'll probably gear up for a stab at it pretty soon (it is still unknown what impact soaring CGI use will ultimately have on the webserver so these changes will bring some anxious moments). Finally (there's more I'm sure, but this is more than enough for now), the return of the Help Wanted section will come a bit further down the road, and when the section is revived, it will be fully user-automated (like the LAN parties listing), but until then the link to the old Want Ads has been removed from the menu.

Link of the Day: The Weekly's list of Good and Bad Deaths Thanks Bagpuss. Gotta love the prospect of : "Being the last survivor of your generation, so when researchers come to talk to you, you just make up a lot of stupid facts and cause all subsequent history books to be wrong."