Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

Ok, time to brag some more…

Since yesterday, I’ve had two additional articles posted to AFP548.com. They’re reprints of articles that have appeared here before, but because AFP548 is also distributing them, a wider technical audience will see them.

Creating, mounting, and dismounting disk images from the command line

Setting Up the TFTP Server in Tiger

For those who don’t know, AFP548 is a site run by some of the best technical minds in the Mac community. They cover a variety of topics that concentrate primarily on OS X Server. I’m pleased to have my articles published there because it implies they have some kind of technical merit. The other good result is that, because of wider exposure to a more technical audience, more knowledgeable people are able to read what I’ve written and suggest improvements and corrections.

And finally, I didn’t mention it at the time, but AFP548 also posted Configuring Tiger’s syslogd to accept logs from external devices, which has also appeared on this blog before.

A couple of years ago, I had a closet full of 34×32 pants that fit just fine. I still have some of those pants today, and they fit now just as well as the day I bought them.

About a year ago, I tried on some 34×32 pants and they were too small. I had to buy 36×32 pants instead. They fit the same as the 34×32 pants that were, and still are, in my closet.

Today I bought some new pants. The 36×32 pants were too small. I had to buy 38×32 pants. They fit the same as the 36×32 pants I wore to the store when I purchased the new ones.

I now have three different sizes of pants in my closet that all fit the same. What the hell is going on? Has something changed with the sizes? Are they measuring something different, or have the units become smaller? I know for a fact that I’m not any bigger, partially because I own several mirrors, and partially because the pants size that is now too small still fits me from a couple of years ago. I’m at a total loss to explain it.

As the saying goes, history isn’t one damn thing after another, it’s the same damn thing over and over again. Since the flooding began in New Orleans, I was reminded of a book by David McCullough titled The Johnstown Flood. I haven’t read the whole book, but if it’s anything like McCullough’s other books, it should be a fascinating read. I decided to mention this on my blog because today I read this story at Fox News about the Johnstown flood, and the parallels between it and New Orleans are interesting. I recommend reading the Fox News article for your personal historical amusement and edification.

As an aside, the article does not say whether President Benjamin Harrison received any criticism or accepted any blame for the state militia’s two week response time to the flood.

In order to slow down comment spam, I’ve set this blog to require a login ID before comments can be posted. I have no nefarious purpose behind collecting e-mail addresses, I just want to be somewhat sure that a real person is posting comments to this site. Any information beyond your name and the comment you post is meaningless to me.

Someone pointed out today that it was difficult to figure out how to register. The template I use for this blog makes the link somewhat difficult to find, and it doesn’t present a registration link when an anonymous poster attempts to comment. I’m sure those details can be modified, but frankly I’m not motivated enough to do it.

So, if you want to register in order to comment, there is a link on the right side of the front page under the Misc heading titled Register…. Or you can click here to register right now since you’re reading about it.

I’m proud to announce that I’ve been formally invited to be part of the faculty for Macworld San Francisco 2006, where I’ll be a conference speaker (I hope I’ve got the terminology correct). I’ll post details of the conference I’m hosting when things are finalized by the Macworld staff.