May 2018 proved to be quite a productive month for me and my blogging – 29 articles, more than I’ve done since January. I guess I’m getting back into the swing of things. Of course, the 45th anniversary of the launch of Skylab helped with that, giving me a set of articles to write about […]
Yesterday new data privacy laws took hold in the European Union. These laws, known as the “General Data Protection Regulation” or, GDPR, very basically, and I do mean in a very basic form allow European Union residents to demand a company they have data with get rid of said data at that users request (or […]
The past 3 months have been quite a mess for this site – quite a bit less content, and some slightly different types of content out of what had been published were the norm. Certainly not how I wanted to start out the year, to say the least. While the slight shift in subject matter […]
As you can tell, my previous statements about getting back to normal article writing rates on Xadara haven’t fully come to pass as I hoped they would. Thankfully much of this has actually been intentional, if the root cause hasn’t been something I expected or planned for. Just about a month ago, coinciding with a […]
I mentioned previously that for some strange reason, I just haven’t felt like working on Xadara as much as I have over the past 2 years. I don’t know if it’s burnout, general frustration and exhaustion, or just being too busy with other things, but for whatever reason I went from about an article a […]
I’m finally getting back into the writing groove, damn near a month after the slow down in production began. That’s awesome just on the point I’m finally getting back to writing for the site, which I honestly do enjoy, but it also means I can finally cover things that I’ve been behind on sharing – […]
Anyone taking a look at this site will notice something – I have barely written anything in damn near 3 weeks! I’ve gone from nearly every single day writing at least one article, if not more, to barely getting one out every few days. What’s happened? Honestly, nothing… nothing I can put my finger on. […]
With the way January goes for me, I didn’t even realize until last night that it was February, and that I should do the now standard “What’s Coming” article where I state a list of plans that I know I won’t be able to keep up with! A wonderful tradition, to be sure. Right, I […]
What’s that? It’s January 31st? Well, looks like I’ve survived another trip around the Solar System, as some would say. Awesome. I did have some crazy long post I wanted to make regarding this, but I couldn’t word it correctly. Something about it all just didn’t feel right as a way to celebrate. What I […]
Here we go, the first post for 2018! Might as well open up the year with the typical update entry, but this time, like 2017, I’ll cover my broader plans for the entire year! As I’ve hinted at in a few previous articles, I’m planning to somewhat go back to the sites roots this year. […]
I felt like letting Xadara leave 2017 in style. After the rather low point I feel the site hit in December, why not end it on a high note right? To that end, I felt the best way to go about this would be with the 1986 hit song, “The Final Countdown” by the band […]
Well, here we are, the end of 2017. I think most people would agree one way or another it was a hell of a year – 2016 was rough, but 2017 really took the cake for most everyone, me included. In some ways, the year here on my website was equally rough. It marked the […]
It’s the evening of December 21st, 2017 as I type this. We have effectively 9 days left of 2018, and I still have quite a bit to write about before the year is out. I’ve mentioned before about the massive backlog of things I’ve been wanting to cover. Old subjects that are lost, things that […]
So a little update since we’re about halfway through my “Cult of SpaceX” article series. Right now, I’m still slightly behind where I want to be. Ideally, I want to have everything I need to say regarding SpaceX and its fanbase done before January, so I never have to address it again. Now, you certainly […]
In the interest of putting something out today (I’ve been a little under the weather the past few days), I’ve decided to break out this relic from YouTube circa 2006 – a video for a fictional game called CUBE! It’s actually a rather nice animation for what it tries to parody; late 80’s / early […]