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 […]
Something I’ve never once understood over the past decade or so of being online has been the absolute love that people have for Google — not just the “oh, they have neat services” aspect, but the fact that people will go out of their way to ignore their constant begging for user data (as the […]
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 […]
Today was quite the interesting one in the gaming community, and was something I actually wasn’t aware of till just a few weeks ago: Free Video Game Day. It functions much like Free Comic Book Day does for, well, the comic book community. The different is FCBD is sponsored by the comic book industry, directly […]
Today is May 4th, a fun little day in geek culture focused on an enjoyment of Star Wars, not out of any significance in the series (it’s not the release day of any of the films, although the 6 core films were all released in the month of May) but instead simply because “May Fourth” […]
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 […]
This isn’t something that actually surprises me, given the nature of capitalism and the ability for marketing to make people pay for damn near anything, but seeing that it’s actually a thing now amazes me. There are now services you can pay for that will set up video game consoles. Yes, seriously. And yes, they […]
It’s been a little while since we dived into a scammer video.. and even more so since it’s been on a Sunday. Yeah, we actually have a proper Scammer Sunday! Ah, that takes me back a year or so to when I actually tried to keep up with a regular schedule and theme of articles. […]
Back in September of last year, toy retail chain Toys-R-Us filed for bankruptcy. At the time, everyone across the internet, in their complete lack of comprehension on how anything works, proclaimed the end of the company, and began wondering when stores would start closing. This wasn’t the case at the time – far from it. […]
This weekend a visiting friend and I decided to grab a snack at McDonalds. He proposed some nuggets which got me thinking this might be a good chance for me to actually go and give that Szechuan sauce a try. I only haven’t had the stuff in, oh, 20 years, since the original 1998 Mulan […]
It’s well known that I like to go out to thrift shops around in Memphis hunting for things that may be useful, or otherwise interesting to own . While I was out on one of these hunts in late 2016 I stumbled across something that I originally thought was some kind of older computer printer. […]
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. […]
So, as I write this, it’s 3AM. I really should be asleep, but let’s face it – with my work schedule being what it is an sleep issues, this isn’t anything normal. Right now I’ve got the Dido album “No Angel” laying. Haven’t listened to that in many years, and it’s just as good as […]
One of the first things someone simply browsing this site would notice is probably a focus on a few very different subjects. While most websites seem to have a single theme about them, Xadara doesn’t. If you haven’t already read the description of the site, Xadara is, after all “a geeky little blog about nothing […]