Well, from the looks of it, you would think I had fallen off the face of the Earth for weeks at a time, considering how often I post to this website. I find myself to be a man who is an odd combination of too busy and too lazy to get some projects done in …
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Blogging in the Mobile Era: Full Scale Blogging with Mobile Systems
Let’s face it: mobile devices are taking over every aspect of our digital lives. Why sit in front of a massive desktop tower, or lug around a 10 lb laptop, when a tablet PC, or even your cell phone, can do everything you need to do both on and offline? With seamless integration into social …
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No, I’m not dead
As always, when I feel I have not been active here when I should have, I like to make a post to let people know just what is going on. Anyone who attends conventions of any kind knows there is a wind-down period, where their normal life gets back in gear, and for me, it …
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Anime Blues Con
I have been meaning to make this post for a while now: I am even delayed today posting it due to a power outage in the area. Simply put, I am going to Anime Blues Con. This will be my first ever Anime convention, and I am quite excited. Memphis is not known for having …
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A reason to re-install Windows….
So, I am going to have to reinstall Window to my main desktop. The reason? Security center was basically destroyed by a flash based exploit. I noticed a few days ago that, for some reason, the action center icon on the taskbar was just plain gone. Nowhere to be found. I went to the action …
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5 Years of Xadara: Part 3
[Yes, I know this post is long overdue. Sorry about that: as usual life has it’s way of taking up time. That, and Terraria] So, by this time, it was coming up on 2010. Xadara was several years old, but had also grown stagnant. Very little conversation was happening on the forums, and while the …
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5 Years of Xadara: Part 2
It was Thanksgiving, 2007. KuriMix 1st and 2nd gen had been released for a short while now, and Xadara was gaining popularity as a community. Small, but vibrant forums, with new members every few days. It was pretty cool, really… Until I woke up that cold November morning. I awake to find my hosting service …
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A little retrospective is a good thing…
Recently, I have been listening to music that I listened to back a decade ago, when I was in High School. Many of these bands I have not really listened to since then, so it was refreshing, in a way to go back to familiar tracks that I was not burnt out on listening to. …
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SOPA Blackout
From 8Am to 8Pm tomorrow, January 18th, 2012, Xadara will be “on strike” as it were, in protest to the ProtectIP and SOPA laws trying to be passed through the United States governmental system. I’m not going to make some longwinded post about such, explaining what these things are, why these laws are so horrible …
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Hello world!
Yes, well, I know what you are thinking: WHAT HAPPENED TO XADARA? Easy. Changed some things out. CMSmadesimple, while good for static pages, etc, honestly did not do what I needed it to for constantly updating, live content. That is what I always intended the site to have.. constantly updating content. So, I decided yesterday …
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Public Wifi Encryption?
So, as I post this blog, I am down the street from my house, at a Subway restaurant. Now, there is a Dunkin Doughnuts 2 doors down that advertises free Wifi. Well, turns out their access point is secured with a WEP key.. which is all to common here in Memphis. Free wifi requires you …
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Thoughts on the Space Shuttle Program
The primary purpose of the STS program (the Space Shuttle) was to build a permanent base in earth orbit, from which we could research, and eventually use as a base for future missions to the Moon, and beyond. The Shuttle was quickly thrust into a changing world. The fall of the Soviet Union changed it’s …
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