I took a bit of time yesterday to do a long overdue move of my Dell PowerEdge server. It had spent the past 5 months or so in the living room, humming away, holding files and serving up Final Zone BBS. The server has finally been moved to a closet where it can now hum […]
You know the score – another month on the horizon means another video from Microsoft advertising the 4 upcoming free games with an Xbox Live Gold membership. It’s never ending, but in a good way. Interestingly, this video mentions the Xbox Series S and Series X, so that’s cool – we’re acknowledging the soon to […]
This morning before work I was using my Mac Pro for, well, Mac Pro things. By that I mean watching stupid junk on YouTube and checking on my BBS. I’ve not actually turned the system off in a week, and had been doing some reasonable work on it before and was curious; just how was […]
Today the United States Department of Justice and 11 states (Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Montana) filed an antitrust suit against Google, with the focus being it’s domination of the internet search market. I’ve been saying for years Google has been ,quite simply, a monopoly. They have their hands far to […]
That feed function I mentioned earlier is pretty neat, importing entries here on Xadara into my Bulletin Board System, but it has one MAJOR problem – it doesn’t import them WELL. By that, I mean it does a bit of a poor job in properly importing the excerpt of the post and thus has some […]
File this under “crap that only I’ll actually care about” but after a bit of a rough night waiting for some help with code that just refused to work, I’ve got RSS feed importing go on Final Zone. This post will function as a partial test of this functionality. I know it’s working, but I’ve […]
2020 has been a hell of a year for pretty much everyone on Earth. As is obvious I’ve even stepped away quite a bit from this website and many related projects (although my work in the BBS scene took over, so it wasn’t time wasted) and this has caused obvious delays in, well, everything. I’ve […]
I’ve spent some time the past few weeks changing out the locations of a great many images here on Xadara, moving them from sub-folders on the site into the main WordPress image gallery. This is, of course, something you would think I would have just done anyway – it’s how most people run WordPress based […]
This is another one of those entries I’ve been meaning to get to for what feels like forever – a bit of a look into how I view the nature of discourse or, more correctly, how I come to the conclusions and opinions I have about reality. Simply put, as the title states, I feel […]
I’m going to make this a short one, as not only am I writing it with a bit of a time crunch but I’m also pretty set on what October will consist of. I used September as a month to get back into the groove of writing, after several months taking a bit of a […]
I got an email yesterday evening from YouTube regarding their partner program and some upcoming changes to it — the long and the short of it is they will no longer be allowing people to pre-sign the contract associated with the program; you’ll have to wait until you meet their stupid threshold to monetize before […]
After the pretty terrible showing last month from the Games with Gold lineup, I’ve gotta say I wasn’t hoping for much this time around. At first glance the selection looks like a joke, but once I looked a little more closely I’m seeing more to enjoy this time around. Let’s take a look. Starting off […]
It’s been damn near two weeks since my last update, and I just wanted to chime in and say I’m fine and things are okay on a whole, beyond the fact it’s nearly 100 degrees every damn day now (38 Celsius for those of you in the rest of the world) and that’s incredibly exhausting […]
This is just a post to update readers that things are as fine as they can be on my end of things. The world is in a hell of a state right now — well, mainly the US is. The continued political strife is as heated as ever and, exactly as anyone with any sense […]
I’m not going to lie – I didn’t even want to write this one. I know I’m normally one to be optimistic about the games coming each month, but for July 2020 the selection is a joke. Yes, I’m saying that. I certainly always try to look on the good side of what’s being offered […]