While Upstart has the problem of joining together the idea of astartup script being present and it being active (per my earlierentry ), there is a relatively simple way ofdistributions to fix this while preserving all of the benefits ofUpstart.

Although Upstart sort of apes traditional runlevels, it really operatesbased on events; services declare what events they depend on, and theystart when those events happen. Upstart events are completely abstract(although it has some built in ones), and they can be generated byhand

One thing I've noticed over time is that shows where the setting isjust ordinary life generally don't grab me, regardless of their genreor premise. This isn't an absolute rule and there are some exceptions( Toradora is one recent example), but the exceptions generally have tobe very good. Add something out of the ordinary to the setting and theshow has a much higher chance of getting my interest. The usual spicethat anime uses is some supernatural elements, but a lot of things