Dimitre Novatchev emailed me about his "The Functional Programming Language XSLT", pointing out 2 new articles "Dynamic Functions using FXSL: Composition, Partial Applications and Lambda Expressions" and "Casting the Dice with FXSL: Random Number Generation Functions in XSLT". Haven't had a chance to read them yet, it's on my list now.

I guess Jon Udell took some heat for the comments on the Eating the XML Dogfood article.  I know I've worked with some XML schemas that clearly weren't designed by anybody who actually had to use them.   

Just ran into an interesting site, Kevin Altis's Weblog.  He's working with Python, PythonCard, and apparently Jython, which are all things I want to look into.  Especially PythonCard, after Patrick Logan's talk at DevCon, where he advocated building easier frameworks, like Hypercard.  I'm very interested in this lately.  I hadn't heard of PythonCard before tonight, but now it's on my list.

I attempted to install FreeBSD on an old machine at home today.  3 tries, no luck.  The first time I had a bad mouse, got into X configuration and hit a screen I couldn't get out of without a mouse.  Next 2 tries, I ended up with an image that wasn't bootable.  Now, I can be kinda dumb sometimes, but laying down a boot sector is a pretty basic part of an OS install.  Seems to me that that's something that shouldn't be subject to user error.  OTOH, when I was a software tester at Tandy, I got a reputation for being able to break anything; maybe it's just my touch.