It goes without saying that 2020 proved to be one hell of a year. While for me it actually wasn’t all that bad, beyond a major spot in the early portion of Spring, it was still a rough one between work, personal life, and my online existence. Still, it was also a year of growth […]
Time now for a bit of unscheduled comedy. I got an alert that the program which manages my graphics card had an update. I, naturally, began to install this update and was surprised at how slowly it was actually downloading – at something more akin to 56K dial up than any proper form of broadband. […]
The title isn’t entirely true – there are a few very unimportant entries which had been deleted a while back which are lost. They had no value anyway, unlike the entries I restored this evening. If you have been following this site for long enough or know me to any real degree you will know […]
It was back on Halloween I published the last XVGR article (of all two which have been written so far.) I’ve been wanting to write more but my priorities with the site have been a bit shifted recently, and I’ve just not found good time that I felt like working on one. As things stand […]
It’s the end of 2020. One more month to go, one more chance to make up for what was otherwise lost time this year. I’ll make this one quick, as it’s pretty much the same overall idea as last month – stay the course. That is to say, I’m just going to keep on writing […]
A couple of years ago I set out on a goal to have a more regular publishing schedule here on Xadara. The idea was Monday through Friday publishing which would result in around, if I posted an entry per day, a little over 20 entries a month. On the surface it was a fine idea […]
Yesterday I took one of my Mac mini’s (Lion, for those curious) to work again so I could do a bit of a deep clean on it. Something was rattling around in it and I didn’t want to turn it back on (it’s been out of use since the Spring) without getting whatever it was […]
Ya know that podcast project I keep bringing back, doing a few episodes of, and then suddenly not working on again? Well, we’re at that cycle where I’ve all but given up on it again. It’s been that way for a while, but I’m only now writing about it. Watercress and I recorded a whole […]
It’s a question that most anyone who at least has a cursory knowledge of the subject will inevitably ask, in some form, when the topic if brought up of running an old fashioned Bulletin Board System in 2020 — why? Why would you spend the time and energy for something so primitive; a concept of […]
File this as another one of those “yeah I haven’t written anything in a while” entries. Yeah, it’s been a week since I last published anything here, but let’s be serious — it’s been, as the title suggests, one hell of a week. Last Tuesday was election day here in the United States and while […]
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 […]
I can keep this one pretty simple – the goal for November is “stay the course.” I feel October, while a little delayed on getting going, was really a good return to regular writing for me. This past month has also marked a bit of a return to video content, but specialist stuff for now. […]
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 […]