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I'm sometimes a PC

I disagree with Daring Fireballabout the new I'm a PC ad from Microsoft. I think they are much better for Microsoft than any Microsoft ads I have seen in years. They directly counter the negative slant that Apple has successfully (and aptly) put on Windows, and give current PC users something to be proud of. Assuming that the purpose of these ads is to make people want to stay with Microsoft for one more round of OS versions instead of abandoning it for Apple, the ads will work. Apple got a lot of well-deserved milage out of their campaign, and one wonders why Microsoft didn't counter it a year or more ago.

Just breathe

zefrank is back, sometimes. This song just appeared, and it is great for a couple of reasons. First, it reminds us that we are just fine, just breathe. Deeper, though, is how it was put together. A bunch of people who don't know each other and aren't in the same room or even the same time zone get to sing the chorus by singing by themselves and having the composer put them together. Wonderful.

Lots of egrets and herons

As I was driving up Route 1 from Watsonville yesterday, I saw a large gathering of egrets and herons in a slough. Fortunately, I had my camera with me; pictures are here.

Making GnuTLS from source code in its own directory

It's not hard, but it takes some command-line mojo for configuring. I wanted to build everything in a test directory, not spray things into /usr/local. The following is based on the current sources as of today; your milage will vary.

cd libgpg-error-1.6
./configure --prefix=/path-to-gtls/work
make; make install

cd libgcrypt-1.4.2
./configure --prefix=/path-to-gtls/work --with-gpg-error-prefix=/path-to-gtls/work
make; make install

cd libtasn1-1.5
./configure --prefix=/path-to-gtls/work
make; make install

cd gnutls-2.5.4 ./configure --prefix=/path-to-gtls/work --with-libgcrypt-prefix=/path-to-gtls/work --with-libtasn1-prefix=/path-to-gtls/work
make; make install