blog, changelog: 0.8.17 was released in 2013, not 2012
make binary: allow custom config flags

For example, to cross-compile from my OS X laptop for Raspberry Pi, you would
do something like:

  $ make binary BINARYNAME=node-v`python tools/getnodeversion.py`-linux-arm-pi \
      DESTCPU=arm CONFIG_FLAGS="--dest-os=linux"
blog: release v0.9.6