Apologies for not blogging sooner. Between slow network connectivity here and the generally fragile state of editthispage.com, I’ve been unable to get to my site all day.

I had some insights on the problems with my scripts on the flight back. By reviewing the Apple-published scripting list archives, I realized that others were having problems publishing via XML-RPC (and probably SOAP) any text that contained unescaped HTML tags (e.g. < instead of &lt). This explains why my iTunes2Manila script was publishing with an empty body and should be easy to fix. There were also suggestions that processing the arguments to an XML-RPC or SOAP call to use plaintext instead of Unicode (or vice versa) would result in successful RPC calls. I may have some head down time on that shortly and hope to be able to bring my scripts up to Jaguar compatibility soon.

While Tim is (hopefully) at home sleeping off his jetlag, I'm sure you'll all join me in wishing him and Lisa the very best on their 5th wedding anniversary. It's times like this that being on opposite coasts really bites; a card and phone call hardly seem adequate. Fortunately, they're both sensible people who know a good thing when they see it, so while I can't help them celebrate in person on the 5th, hopefully I'll catch them on the 10th through 50th and beyond.