The Open Corpus Workbench (CWB) software is a major component of the computational infrastructure of our field - including Lancaster's CASS research centre. It includes the powerful Corpus Query Processor (CQP), as well as the user-friendly CQPweb browser interface. The lead developers of CWB, Stefan Evert and Andrew Hardie, are presently working on a new wave of CWB development, to renew the power of the thirty-year-old system for the new century. In this (moderately informal) talk, Andrew Hardie will present a progress report on Project Ziggurat, a refreshed low level system for managing indexed corpus data, and on the current directions of work on CQPweb. There will be plenty of time for questions, discussion, and suggestions. The session will be of particular interest to users of CWB or CQPweb who would like to know a little more about how it works behind the scenes.