Random things I found on the web:

• How to read a scalar line by line in perl.

• Corroborating my own feelings about blogging and my recent inability to write anything of serious substance, William Gibson is going on hiatus and trying to get serious writing done.

• How to make a string all lower case with XSLT.

• The Web is a procrastination apparatus: It can absorb as much time as is required to ensure that you won’t get any real work done. Sites overflow with either low-value stream-of-consciousness postings or bland corporatese.

</figure> The quote is from a page of quotes about XML. It’s kind of interesting. It’s somewhat philosophical, and definitely touches upon epistemology. Knowing how we know what we know should define how we structure information, just because it would be the path of least resistance, I think.

• Parsing iTunes Music Library.xml.