idle day

Didn't really do much today. I tried to build 68060-optimized OpenSSH and OpenSSL m68k debs, but they didn't do what I wanted them to do -- at least not yet. Since doing any m68k work generally takes up a considerable amount of time, I got distracted and ended up playing xgalaga and watching TV most of the day, 'till I had to go to the choir rehearsal. Had some good fun,there.

The rehearsal is over now (and has, in fact, been for quite some time), but I'm not really feeling like working on those 060 packages at this time of the day anymore. Instead, I just wrote a 40-line script that will parse a MIME-encoded mail, fetch out the 'From', 'To', 'Cc', 'Subject', and 'Date' headers, get any 'text/plain' parts, and output all that in a format ready for it to be put on the website of the flute choir I'm in, a website I finished a while ago. Once that script is put in the right .forward file, our conductor can update the "latest news" section in the private part of that website by sending a mail. I just love perl...

In other news, my laptop is starting to malfunction. Every once in a while, the screen goes white, emitting light at full power. If I shake it around a bit, it goes back to normal, but I don't like it, since "white" is a battery-expensive color. I tried opening it up and checking what's going on yesterday, but couldn't. I'm not a hardware specialist -especially not on laptops- so I'm sure it's me; it's probably just some loose wire somewhere, but I seem to be too clueless to find out.