Scott Andrew - lo-fi acoustic pop superhero!

Copies of the Sandalwood Sessions are on their way to Amazon and CDBaby, and I’m in the process of setting up a Paypal store to do my own order fulfillment. Fly, little disc!

I spent the weekend getting reacquainted with XSLT (and its components, XSL and XPath) for a one-off project. I have to admit that the XSLT abilities of IE’s MSXML3 parser are da bomb. I know it’s fashionable to do your transformations on the server, but there’s something nice about having the XML (data, stylesheets and all) cached on the client itself, and not hitting the server again and again as you’re formatting the data. A lot of nasty things have been said about the complexity of XPath, but it’s really a snap, especially if you’re already familiar with DOM 2 Core. Mozilla has similar capabilities staring with 1.2 final, but the implementation is different.

Congress is voting on the Homeland Security Act (HSA) soon, possibly today. A rather noxious piece of legislation, the Cyber Security Enhancement Act (CSEA), has been rolled into the HSA that would allow any government entity (federal, state, or local) to request email and voicemail from your ISP or telephone provider without a warrant or probable cause. The Electronic Frontier Foundation provides a form letter opposing the legislation you can forward to your Congresspeople.