Added a line to edit.sed that stops the Joint New Years Editorial from appearing at the beginning of the output every day. The new version is in the SVN version.
I've changed again the messaging but I think I've got it right now. The Qt info boxes wouldn't auto close and did a nice job cluttering up the screen. So, it's done with kdialog now as a progress bar. Check out the svn version to see. I may do a release for this sometime this weekend.
Playing around with Qt4 I've redone the notification windows in that rather than using xmessage in the SVN version. I haven't figured out how to get them to close after a certain amount of time (or better yet when the job actually completes that they're notifying on) so no new release as of yet but svn if you want to have a look.
Just submitted the revised code in SVN to stop the script from having those big gaps between the articles that it pulls. However, in doing so I created another dependency (dos2unix) for the text file conversion.