I figured out why all the nodes in v2 were piled up in the center of the applet and fixed that. I made changes to the base touchgraph code to use anti-aliasing and transparency effects available with java.awt.Graphics2D (it was using java.awt.Graphics before that). Then I fixed the scraper code (which is C# and regexp) to properly interpret the paginated friend lists for users with more than 40 friends. (For an example: navigate from Sean to Gordon to Sameer. Then go get a cup of coffee ;-) As a result of fixing the pagination problem, the xml file is creeping up on 2mb with all the new nodes. So I switched over to .zip compression and it's a much friendlier ~127k.

The !@#$%@#$%@!#$ images still don't load, "but it works from inside my IDE". I hate hearing that, and I hate saying it even more. I'll get that figured out soon enough. For the time being, the popup windows are gone, and will be replaced by a static upper-left corner location in which all images appear.

I realized I wasn't counting some valid situations in my 'Mackness' report, such as open-marriage status, so that's next.