Here’s a topic I’ve been long overdue on covering as I sometimes do get asked about it and some may find interesting; the origins my online alias “Kurisu Yamato.” At first glance most people just chalk it up as another weird Japanese styled name, probably from some “weeb” kid who’s really into some particular anime …
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What Xadara Is, And What It Isn’t
I was intending to write this article a month ago, around the 13th anniversary of this sites founding, but given how much chaos last month was it got delayed while I worked on some other more critical tasks. Today, to finish off this week I figured now would be as good a time as ever …
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What Makes Old Computers So Much Fun?
Since finally getting much of my vintage computer collection back into a usable location I’ve somewhat run back into a kick of playing around with the old machines and watching / reading media related to them, their operating systems, what have you. It’s been a nice break from work, current events, and music related studies …
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Getting Back To My Vintage Computer Collection
Over the past year or so my “office” in one room of the house has become pretty much nothing but storage, and in the process my Macintosh systems as well as a few other Windows machines of varying vintages have been effectively inaccessible. Over the past week some work has been done on that room …
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As Society Falls Apart, My Life Is Mostly Unchanged – Pandemic Log 4/6/2020
It’s been a few weeks since I wrote about the inescapable fact of reality that is COVID-19. In those weeks, things have, obviously, gotten worse. Much worse. We went from having a few cases in my county to over 700, with 13 deaths. That’s just in the county — the state is now at nearly …
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What’s Coming For April 2020 On Xadara
We’re in quite a unique time in history, what with the whole Coronavirus situation and how that’s affecting life for most everyone on Earth in some way. That being said, most people are trying to, in one way or another, keep things pretty normal in their lives during this, and that’s no exception here on …
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Please, Take The Virus Seriously
It amazes me, weeks into what has quickly become a global pandemic and, in my eyes, a defining event in all our lives (more so than even September 11th, 2001) that there are people out there trying to live their lives like nothing is happening — as if this isn’t something to be concerned about. …
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YouTube, Microsoft, And Sony Are Limiting Connection Speeds To Help Conserve Bandwidth
With many people being forced to stay home during this pandemic the overall infrastructure of the internet is being somewhat taxed by far more people than normal using it for video watching, gaming, teleconferencing, what have you, at any given time. While the overall infrastructure seems like it can handle the overall load the fact …
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The Obligatory COVID-19 Post
I try very hard not to have to cover more serious subjects here. It can be, quite honestly, depressing, to cover much of what goes on in the world, and while I do share very strong opinions from time to time on my hobbies, I do fully acknowledge, regardless of how supportive or critical I …
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It’s Good To Be Back
It’s been damn near two weeks since the last entry on this site and, now that the chaos has settled, it’s time for things to get back to normal around here. To say that when I wrote the “change is inevitable” entry I didn’t expect it to be such a dramatic case of life imitating …
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The Pen Is Mightier Than The Frontier? (Or, Another WordPress Theme Change)
As you might have noticed, things look very, very different around here. That’s because I found a new theme I liked — this one going by the name of “Pen” and amazingly, for all its raw power, complex code, and beauty it’s free (with some premium options, of course.) To say the previous theme, Frontier, …
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Change Is Inevitable
They say the only thing constant is change. As much as I hate to admit it, they (whomever “they” actually are) are correct — it seems, in the end, the only thing you can really count on always happening is some form of change. It’s inevitable. Be it something natural, like a forest or a …
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What’s Coming For March 2020 On Xadara
At the start of February I said that “change” was coming to the site – a slightly different focus and flow was going to be the name of the game, so to speak. March is, honestly, going to be no different. I got a little sidetracked in implementing some of my plans this past month …
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Introducing “Now Playing” – A Look At Whatever Game I May Be Enjoying At That Moment
I’ve recently finally really taken time to enjoy just sitting back and playing games again; I worked my way through Halo: Reach again recently and right now have been finally working through Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. During the past week or so of playing it I’ve made the occasional post on twitter about …
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The Strange Story Of My European PlayStation 3 – Part 3: Just What Do I Really Have?
In the last entry in this series I discussed how we determined that the European PlayStation 3 I had come into possession of actually did work — at least, it had no critical issues. Being a system made for the European market its power supply was a 220-240 volt only model — not a “universal” …
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