Ok, I’m trying to figure out how to make a bootable CD image for FreeBSD. I understand the mkisofs command line needed. But I don’t understand what must be included on the image to successfully boot it. So, anyone who feels like helping me out while I’m asleep tonight, just leave a comment 
In response to HokiePundit’s justification for not posting his next theological essay, let me simply say “Bull-she-iet”.
More specifically, HP, the only way your post makes sense is if you’re saying Christian theology is irrational and must be taken on faith. Since the Bible doesn’t tell me if I should invest in Pepsi or Nike or neither, Christians obviously have to extrapolate from what’s given to gain further insight and guidance. And you extrapolate by using rationality.
Now, the basic ideas of Christainity do rest on faith instead of rationality, and I’m not arguing that. But anyone who can study Greek mythology or play Dungeons and Dragons is capable of the level of empathetic understanding necessary to comprehend Christian theology.
The real frustration I’ve seen Christians have when talking about theology with non-believers isn’t that the non-believers can’t or don’t comprehend. Christians almost always treat theological discussions as relating to reality, which they obviously do for Christians. But for non-believers, that doesn’t hold. I’ve never had a non-believer be incapable of following a theological issue assuming it’s treated as a hypothetical. It’s just that non-believers automatically rebel when Christians, subconciously or conciously, treat theology as reality instead of hypothetical. But that rebellion isn’t based in a misunderstanding of the Christian theology, it’s based in a rejection of the faith-based foundation of Christian theology.
And for a Christian talking with a non-believer, you want to bring that rejection to the forefront. This is what clearly separates a Christian from a non-Christian, and the sooner you, as a Christian, isolate and address the issue of faith, the better your witness will be. As for theology, publish it all you want, but when you receive a critique from a non-believer, understand that there’s only two ways to fairly treat him or her:
Doing anything else is neither fair nor productive.
Free advice to one of my viewers from Josh “Dr. Love” Baugher:
dthvt: Hmm, I had a search hit for “neverwinter sex” in my referrer log. That’s just weird.
joshbaugher: haha
joshbaugher: if someone wants sex
joshbaugher: why don’t they just stop playing neverwinter nights
dthvt: lol, no kidding.
joshbaugher: that isn’t pick-up material
joshbaugher: or if they’re looking online, just go to a porn site, sheesh
Once again, I must sing the praises of Movable Type. A flawless upgrade from 1.4 to 2.21 with zero downtime of the published site. If only all software could be this sweet!
Oh, I also have enabled this new TrackBack feature they added. Seems like a pretty cool idea, so we’ll see how it works. I’m not going back and enabling it on all the old entries though, as I can’t find a simple way to do it in bulk. So you’ll just have to deal.
My hosting provider moved me to a new server which had a different version of the db routines, thus locking me out of my Moveable Type account. After some research on Movable Type’s site, I found the steps I needed to make it work again.
In related news, I’ll be working to get upgraded to the latest and greatest version of MT over the next day or two. Hopefully there’ll be minimal site disruption.