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Well… one bad power supply and a satellite dish that doesn’t want to lock onto current tv, I’m finally streaming Pangea Day video. We’ll see if it was worth the trouble. Hopefully Showtime works for tomorrow and This American Life.

You’d think I would have become accustom to failing at things, but it’s still a surprise to me. Phonese3 beta was supposed to be released today, but I’ve failed at finishing on time it yet again.

I could have finished it. I had plenty of time, but I didn’t. If you want, I can name off all of the things that clouded my mind instead of concentrating on anything productive, but I’m sure you’re as tired of hearing about them as I am clearing my mind of them.

For now, it’s time to eat some Mexican food, and watch a movie in a language I can’t understand. Today is still a good day as long as I say it is.

There have been a few git updates since I last made a package. Here’s the latest 1 day after it’s release. Note: It will clean up the previous install for you.

Remeber to add this line to ~/.bash_profile if you haven’t already:

export PERL5LIB=/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/

You can download git 1.5.5.1 here: http://code.twi.gs/git-1.5.5.1.pkg

What a headache. After a couple of hours of googleing, it looks like this is the way you should install PIL on OS X:

Download libjpeg: ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
At the time of this writing the libjpeg homepage is down.

Next compile it:

tar zxvf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
cd jpeg-6b
cp /usr/share/libtool/config.sub .
cp /usr/share/libtool/config.guess .
./configure --enable-shared --enable-static
make
sudo make install
sudo ranlib /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.a


Edit: If sudo make install fails, mkdir the directories that make is trying to install the files into. There are a couple of man directories and a bin directory.

Now download PIL: http://effbot.org/downloads/Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz

and compile it

tar xvzf Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz
cd Imaging-1.1.6
sudo python setup.py install


Whew… what a mess.