At this point in our story I had a Power Mac G5, the last of the Power PC based Macintosh computers, in my possession. It worked but with a quirk in that it didn’t make the traditional “boot chime” that (until recently) all Macintosh computers had. This bugged me enough that I set out to …
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An Unexpected Entry Into The World Of The Macintosh – Part 2 – The Power Mac G5
As mentioned previously, as much as I am a Windows guy I’ve always had a fondness for the Macintosh computer family. A combination of having them in school as well as seeing the awesomeness to be found in the Power Mac G5 and the Mac Pro really made me want to get some of these …
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More Cleanup And Organizational Progress – An Update
As you may have noticed, things look a little different around here. I felt like the site needed a bit of an update, so I spent some time Saturday morning changing a few things around with quite the surprising result. I really like this new look, and the simple shift to a nearly-black background I …
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Stage One Of Cleanup Is Complete
I swear this website has become at least 30% updates about the website itself, but I enjoy sharing updates as I work to make Xadara something better than it has been, and today I made some progress towards that cleanup which I mentioned in a previous update. I cleaned out all of the old articles …
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Oh Look, Comments Are Open Again
As I said I wanted to do in a previous update, comments here on Xadara are now open to whomever – no registration required, unlike how things had been for the past, oh, 5 years or more. It is my hope that this will spawn healthy discussion and fun conversation about the subject of the …
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What’s Coming For August 2018 On Xadara
July was a much better month. We’ve been through over half of 2018 with somewhat lackluster article rates, but the past week has been much better and, barring a small gap, July was actually a better month than previous for “getting things back to normal around here.” This is one of those times I kind …
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Let The Cleanup Begin – An Update
As I mentioned in a pair of previous articles, I’m beginning a slight cleanup of Xadara. By slight, I mean probably 50 articles being deleted, and a shift to the general structure of the site. Of course, this is all for the better. Regarding articles, I want to clear up some of the more negative …
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A Quick Shot Of Blogging Optimism
Well, the past few days have shown activity on this site that hasn’t been seen in quite a while – at least, not since the 45th anniversary of the launch and first crewed mission of Skylab, and before that it had been late last year when Xadara had been this active. After taking yet another …
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A Place To Vent: Hostile Space, Version 2
At the beginning of 2018, I set up a second blog here on Xadara, as a direct side effect to me feeling conflicted, shall we say, about discussing my more serious and critical opinions on certain current aspects of space and rocketry. That was, at least, the idea, and I quickly decided I didn’t need …
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Going Back To My Roots, Positive Blogging, And More – An Update
It happened again. Much like I discussed back in December and January, I had another situation where the urge to write about something current actually inhibited my ability to work on this site. However, this time, I was able to think through the situation more clearly and came up with the most obvious of things …
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Happy 4th Of July – 2018 Rocket Launch Edition
Yeah, I know it’s late when I’m writing this (9 P.M. my time) but I figured, hey, why not wish my readers a happy 4th. Right now I’m sure you’re partying in one way or another right now, that is, if you’re in the United States. Hope you’re all being safe! If you’re reading this …
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Blogging Therapy
When you get to the basics of it, a blog is basically a public journal – depending on the subject matter and the author, it can be literally as mundane as a persons day to day life, to something as deep and serious as ones physical and mental health, to anything (and I mean anything) …
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What’s Coming For July 2018 On Xadara
June went by quicker than I thought it would. I also didn’t get as much gaming content out as I expected – I kind of touched on what I wanted to about E3 and then went on about my days. A part of me thinks I should avoid E3 all together next year but at …
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For Me, Toys-R-Us Died Today
Officially, all Toys-R-Us stores in the United States close Friday, June 29th, 2018. What seems like a large portion of them, though, shut down today, the 28th, if not earlier depending on how quickly their merchandise sold out. For me, personally, the end came today when the store I not only worked at for the …
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15 Hours Of Site Downtime – What The Hell Happened?
I woke up this morning hoping to get an article out before my day gets busy, since I had the time and nothing else planned. I figured I would get something simple up to fill the gaps between those multi-article days. I loaded up the website only to discover nothing. Well, nothing but a 500 …
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