Friend Management 90% Complete, Ready for Trial

Users can add friends or reject requests, the friends list is now
persistent and visually alerts to online / offline status. As soon as a
friend is added they can be messaged without page refresh, and alerts
are working fine. I will go live with this tomorrow with Herrmann, Dave,
Hungry Sam and Pickles, and I hope it works fine although there will
probably be an unanticipated hiccup or two, we'll see. But, I'm happy
with the progress and the way it's starting to be fleshed out with real
features, despite the fact it screams 'amateur programming' ;)