Category: Life

Happy 4th Of July 2019! (With More Bonus Rocket Launches!)

It’s the 4th of July and, in what’s becoming a tradition here, instead of typical fireworks I like to celebrate online with something with a little more power behind it – rockets. Old launches, more recent ones, it doesn’t matter to me, I just enjoy seeing these machines do their thing. These aren’t all going […]

Reddit And Computer Elitism (Or, How Not To Actually Answer A Question) – Part 2

Yesterday I told the story of what happened on Reddit when my friend Prince Watercress decided to ask a relatively simple tech support question in the Windows 10 subreddit. To put the relatively long story short, while one person provided actual advice (from their own experience) which didn’t solve the problem but was still helpful, […]

10 Years Ago: The Digital TV Transition In The United States

Today, June 12th 2019 marks 10 years since the mandated day that terrestrial television — you know, the “over the air” type you get with an antenna — was set to end analog broadcasts and go “all digital.” It’s actually one hell of a complicated story — far too much for me to go into […]

What’s Coming For June 2019 On Xadara

Oh, is it really the start of another month already? It seems like May was quite short, but that was probably due to a combination of being extremely busy followed by extremely sick throughout the entire month! Anyway, right, what’s the plan? I obviously haven’t been able to get to as much this past month […]