Unfolded Mind

Yet another monad tutorial, but this time with Major Tom!

Klortho
I got a small C program working, that acts as a FastCGI, fetches XML with libcurl, extracts the xml-stylesheet PI from the result and applies the transformation using libxml and libxslt, then returns HTML to the browser. Yay!

Still TBD:

• extract all headers, and pass them through libcurl
• handle POST, HEAD and PUT
• handle HTTP authentication
• pass response headers through transparently
• proxy non-XML requests, and XML without a stylesheet PI
• clean up the C
• fix the autoconf/automake stuff
• test portability

Still, I’m pleased, and inspired to actually do more work on this.
Anyone want to help?

Damn right, I voted this year!

Has it really been that long? 19 fucking 81? I graduated from high school that year. First year of the Reagan blight, which was made easier (for me anyway) by the release of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. By this time, I’d allowed my young mind to be scorched by some pretty advanced shit, for the time…Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Velvet Underground, Zappa, Devo: this was something else. It sounded like the future of music, like shit was seriously evolving, like nothing would be the same again. Turned out to be true, in ways that only W. S. Burroughs could have imaged; but I digress…

Eno and Byrne have a new album out! Wubbada wubbabda whah huh???? Yeah I know, it’s quite different, yeah it’s “proper songs” and not audio collages with found sounds, but who the fuck cares: it’s Eno and Byrne together for the first time in umpty-billion years!

Plus, there’s a tour!

Holy shit, the world is NOT a COMPLETE pile of suck!