For those interested, I continued to refine the original with some additional niceties and am on v1.0.2.

• Now displays how long 'til the next update
• Actively displays when it's checking
• Has optional sound effects
• Quick links to the monastery gates and your detailed home node
• Keeps track of recently incremented nodes via the XML feed. Note - password is required for this (stored in the keychain).
• Freshy, minty aftertaste.

Please do /msg or email me if there's some neato keen whizbang feature I've left out. Suggestions welcome.

Still at http://www.bassetsoftware.com/perl/pmxpjunkie.dmg.gz.