You can then utilize several features of the disc to help you perform an installation of your operating system or advanced maintenance on an unbootable or unstable system.

These include Startup Disk, password reset, disk utility, firmware password utility, terminal (command line), network utility, system profiler, and Restore System from Backup.

In the future you will be able to view the world through your phone (or eventually your glasses) and see the same sorts of things in real time.

The stories were very enjoyable.  It was a difficult and not entirely horrifying read. The biggest challenge, for me, was Lovecraft’s style. It’s too… old. I found I’d regularly doze off while reading (but that could just be that I tend to read late at night).

I read each of the following stories (I’ve rated them, too, retrospectively)

The Call of Cthulhu (enjoyable)

Dagon (forgettable)

Winged Death (forgettable)

The Rats in the Walls (captivating)

The Colour Out of Space (captivating)

The Outsider (enjoyable)

The Shadow Out of Time (Mesmerizing)

The Lurking Fear (enjoyable)

Pickman’s Model (enjoyable)

The Thing on the Doorstep (enjoyable)

The Shadow Over Innsmouth (Mesmerizing)

The Festival (captivating)

The Dreams in the Witch House (Mesmerizing)

The Nameless City (enjoyable/captivating)

The Mound (Mesmerizing)

What the Moon Brings (eh?)

In the Walls of Eryx (Cool)

The Unnamable (Enjoyable)

At the Mountains of Madness (Frighteningly Mesmerizing)

The one aspect of Lovecraft’s writing which is simultaneously horrifying and frustrating is a failure to describe the utmost horrific beings. It is often left to you,  as the reader, to fill in the blank. This reminds me of a method for writing fiction where you fill in absolutely no unnecessary details, leaving it all to the reader to figure out – making the story more enjoyable as it is the readers imagination that is building the world in which the story takes place. I can see how this technique could make Lovecraft’s writing even more horrific and I can only imagine he was smugly aware of what he was doing by refusing to describe many of the horrors.

Overall it was a good read.  Now I’ve got to peak over my shoulder and make sure there are no shoggoths imitating old ones.

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Reasons to want:

Using the iPad as a multimedia remote. I think it’s going to be very capable with an app that runs through wifi and connects your iPad to your pc or mac which is controlling your media center pc.

Using the iPad to control my smarthome. I can’t imagine it will be too long until an app comes up where you can use the iPad to turn the lights on and off, control the heat, etc. I mean they already have devices like this. The iPad is a perfect candidate with its multitouch surface.

Using the iPad as a day planner. The full integration of email, calendar, etc. means that (theoretically) the iPad should make a great day planner.

Reasons I don’t want the iPad:

The price. It’s too high. Especially with the 3g network option. I’ll be waiting until it comes down in price.

No multitasking. This might not be a big deal, honestly, but I don’t feel right about the lack of multitasking.

There you have it. My iPad post.

I’ve started keeping a reading list – all the books I’ve read. Over the next couple of days I’ll update it to also show the books I am reading or planning on reading in the near future. Of course… it’ll never be complete because I started it when I was 25 and I’ve already read hundreds of books. I’ll try to remember and add as many of them as I can.

Anyway, here is the list.