another night, another paper

Tonight I get to write a 4-5 page critical analysis of Judith Jarvis Thomson's 1971 paper 'A Defense of Abortion.' Woo hoo. I know basically how I want to argue, so I don't think it'll be too much of a deal. I plan to be done within 3 hours. Knowing me, though, that won't happen. I waste too much time when I'm supposed to be writing... Like now, for instance.

xml fun

So today I made my first little thing with XSLT. Basically my concept was to be able to dump out eThreads post meta info in XML and then format it via XSLT. So this demo (which may well only work in Mozilla) demonstrates how that might work. I don't really know that this is too useful, though.

the woes of too many interests

I really need to narrow myself down and actually focus on something instead of letting my projects go with my interests. In the last couple weeks I've messed around with many things, and mastered none of them. Projects I've been playing around with lately: mysql over ssh port forwarding, restricting an ssh user to scp into certain directories, communicating with smart cards, learning C, learning XSLT, and writing WAP applications. I'm sure there's more than I'm just forgetting.

this is why I'm in California

It's 75 degrees outside and perfectly sunny. A little while ago I spent 45 minutes sitting in a boat in the middle of campus. Tonight I'm going to see Howie Day and OAR at House of Blues on Sunset. Classes? What classes?

Howie Day

This afternoon Chris and I headed down to Sunset and bought tickets for Howie Day and OAR at House of Blues on Monday night. Howie's opening, and other shows he's gotten around 40 minutes. Hopefully that'll be the case again, since I'm definitely not going for OAR. That said, we'll probably stay for them.