Last fall I wrote about a mistake from years past where goofing up mount points on a filesystem could really cause some interesting side-effects. Well quite by accident I stumbled into a fun new way to blow up a system while working on yesterday's problems.

First a bit of background for those who are not familiar with UNIX style mount points. Before a disk is mounted on a UNIX system the place it will be mounted looks like a plain old directory. On OS X these directories are collected in /Volumes so there will be a set of directories here representing the various disks and the disks themselves will be mounted on top of these directories. So with disks named Ranch and Barn the directory looks like /Volumes/Ranch and /Volumes/Barn. It is with these directories that SuperDuper was off and running to replicate Ranch to Barn.

In the days and weeks before the arrival of our newest addition to the family we're getting ready to have folks come stay at the house. One of the things we've traditionally resisted is having a "Guest Room". Frankly paying rent on a room and keeping it up just for the few nights a year it would be used has never made much sense to me. When somebody drops by we have a very nice airbed that does a reasonable job.

This time, however, things are a little different. The folks will be in town and staying a little longer than normal so something a little better would be handy. We considered going out to find a futon mattress to make for a more regular bed.

The problem always came back to the same old discussion of what to do when we weren't having guests. So we placed a call to the local furniture rental shop and viola. Days later a brand new bed and bed frame arrived and was setup. It couldn't have been simpler. For less than the cost of one night in a hotel room we now have a very nice queen sized bed in the "guest room". The best part is in a month or 6-weeks we simply call and have it taken away.

Drupalcon is off to a great start. Yesterday afternoon and this morning we met all kinds of great Drupal folks while passing out the free Acquia t-shirts and sharing the news about several recent releases. If you haven't had the chance to check out the new Acquia Drupal Stack Installers. The installers bring a Windows and Mac OS X installer to the desktop that install and setup all of the components necessary (Apache, MySQL, PHP and Acquia Drupal) to get started running a Drupal site.