Longer article up at AFP548.com, but basically I’ve been playing around a fair bit with MCX in DSLocal lately, and there are a lot of interesting applications….

It’s so nice to be able to just manage plists now…. NetInfo I miss you not at all.

So my webhost managed to mess up all htacess files and thus lock me out of my blog for a couple of weeks. I considered briefly posting via MySQL, but then dragged myself back into the realm of the sane and just waited it out. Apologies to the comments that were awaiting moderation…. My resolution is to actually blog more this year, so I’ve started trying out MarsEdit to see if being able to work offline improves the situation….

Another Macworld is over. To be honest, this one was a bit too hectic to really enjoy as a pure punter, and besides, I missed what was a brilliant match where India broke Australia’s record equalling winning streak in Perth.

Schoun Regan and I did the two day PowerTools conference on Advanced OS X Server, then Jeff McCune and I did a shorter presentation and demo on Puppet that seems to have provoked some interest in the MacEnterprise crowd.

The few other talks I managed to make it to were quite good, even given the difficulty of catering to the very wide range of technical ability in a Macworld crowd… I thoroughly enjoyed Andrina Kelly’s Lucid System Administration presentation, some of our Google techs were inspired by Kevin White’s Neutered Admins talk, and I heard lots of good reports about Greg Neagle and Philip Rhinehart’s System Imaging and Deployment two day session.

The two highlights of the week for me were firstly that Joel managed to work the optical inch into his Directory Services talk. Nice work….

Secondly would have to have been seeing Devo in the flesh. Thanks to Dave Pugh (you need to get that blog going Dave…), I now have much better photos than my mediocre camera gave….

Devo were simply awesome. I was prepared to have all my illusions shattered… but they put on an awesome performance….