Python is absurd. Here’s a script that notifies weblogs.com and blo.gs that my site has changed:

import xmlrpclib
proxy = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2')
results = proxy.weblogUpdates.ping('rc3.org Daily',
'http://rc3.org/')
print results.get('message')
proxy = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://ping.blo.gs/')
results = proxy.weblogUpdates.ping('rc3.org Daily',
'http://rc3.org/')
print results.get('message')

That’s sick.