psyche

Thanks to Howard Oakley, survivologist™ (is that a word?) - who, incidentally, helped me set up the awesome AirPort network that has irradiated and served our household for years now, and Firewire Target Disk mode, I succeeded. I am considerably lazy and it’d take ages to post exactly what I did but basically I connected the PowerBook (corrupt HD), in target disk mode, and the external HD (with .fullBackup as well as expanded backup) to the iBook, whence I copied over Apps/System etc.. The Home Folder, missing from the expanded backup as previously stated, I extracted from the mounted .sparseImage, and put in its rightful place on the PB HD. I tried to boot the PowerBook from disk; this failed so I booted from CD, reinstalled, it booted, I ran Software Update etc. and now everything works. The only minor annoyance is that G7 prompts me to register despite the fact it’s registered (obviously some corrupt file somewhere, although Alias SketchBook Pro, Uplink etc. stayed registered) - however if I say “register later”, it proceeds normally, saying I’m registered as before! Annoying but one of the better outcomes.

Linux, meh. For another time.

AS choices. Right. Mrs Holmes, art teacher and careers advisor, told me not to overfocus on sciency stuff. However, I plan to, and to counterbalance this with diverse work experience and other stuff that will go on my UCAS form.

At the moment I plan to do 4.5* AS levels:

Physics
Maths
Further Maths (=0.5)*
Chemistry
Computing

Broadening… it’s broad enough. Physics is my primary interest and is totally backed up by all the others. Maths opens up phat avenues of statistics, economics, computing (this is not an error); all sorts of crap. Chemistry, as Mrs Holmes put it, is the “Rolls-Royce of sciences”. I’m assuming this means that it’s both of great import and generates many opportunities. And computing? Mr Barker explained that Computing isn’t actually required to do a university course in Computing (lol) - in fact they probably won’t care - it’s more about maths, which makes sense. However, in all this “judge stuff the same way the university will”, it’s easy to forget that by doing Computing I will learn about computers which is something I actually want to do. Mrs Holmes asked me to read up on courses and universities over the weekend, which is what I shall do.

Pax

* (11/7/2008): I don’t really know where I got that from, but when Lance asked me how many I was doing at some point and I said 4.5, Elliot quite angrily corrected me (Futher Maths is a whole one). Perhaps I was thinking of doing Further Maths AS or something. I have no idea.