This Entry Has Been Superseded By This Article: A Final Commentary On The Whole PlayStation Classic Power Supply Mess Over the past few days since the release of the PlayStation Classic, my article from several months ago titled “So The PlayStation Classic Doesn’t Come With A Power Supply, And That’s Absolutely Fine” somewhat blew up …
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What Happened To All The Space Content?
Anyone who has followed this site over the past few years will notice a few constants about what I write about – technology, gaming, social commentary, and space and rocketry. Given the depth of the articles I’ve written on the subject, my absolute love of that last category, space, and rocketry, is well documented. Even …
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underconstruction.gif (Or, Yet Another Update Post)
I’m going to try to make this post short and rather to the point, but knowing how I am with things, this will be another 300-500 word mini-essay on one topic. To put what I want to say here in its simplest terms, things are changing around here. Some elements will be more obvious than …
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December 2018 Xbox Live Games With Gold
Well now, it’s the end of the year. Time for one last set of games, and here we have… well, it’s games. I’ll spare the intro and get right to the video and my thoughts on this end of the year set of free games. Let’s begin! On the Xbox One, we have Q.U.B.E. 2 …
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Hi. It’s Been A While.
It’s been a good 16 days since I last wrote anything for this website. The last time I had that much of a gap between posts was probably 2 and a half years ago before I decided I’d try to write more often here and eventually focused on one article a day as a general …
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The Electron Rocket Makes Its First Commercial Flight – “It’s Business Time”
Rocket Labs “Electron” made its second successful and first commercial flight on November 11th, 2018, successfully carrying a compliment of small cubesats into orbit. Let’s go over this one more time – it’s the 3rd flight ever of this launch vehicle, and it’s already making full commercial flights. Now that’s success! Electron in flight. #ItsBusinessTime …
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100 Years Ago: Armistice Day – The End Of World War I
The Great War. The War To End All Wars. World War I. Whatever name it goes by, the conflict which waged in Europe between 1914 and 1918 will go down forever as one of the most pivotal events in human history, rivaled only in magnitude by its successor, World War II. On November 11th, 1918 …
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The Computer Chronicles – Computer Entrepreneurs (1984)
The early days of the computer revolution were an incredible time for people who happened to have the right combination of skills, money, and just plain luck – a successful combination for anyone, sure, but especially so in the computer revolution of the late 70’s and early 80’s. Well known examples of this are people …
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So, Should You Buy A PlayStation Classic?
In the time span since the announcement of the PlayStation Classic and the subsequent announcement of the 20 games on the console, there’s been quite a bit of debate on if this latest mini retro console is actually something you should buy. People have done comparisons on the value of actual PS1 hardware and the …
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Getting Back Into The Swing Of Things, And Space Articles Going Forward
Dang, it’s been a week since the last major post here. All I’ve done since then are a few update posts which really haven’t been all that necessary. Right, I guess it’s time to get back to normal around here. I’m going to try to keep this short and to the point – no need …
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What I Learned From My September “Blog Entry A Day” Challenge
Back in September, I set myself out on a personal challenge to write an entry a day here, regardless of the content. The entire point of this project was not to write about anything in particular but to simply commit to a more steady writing pattern. As 2018 had progressed I had written far less …
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What’s Coming For November 2018 On Xadara
It’s the beginning of the month, time for the obligatory “what’s coming” article, and this one’s going to be something else. I know every month, it seems, I write one of these, and every month I say the same old things. You’re tired of it, I’m tired of it, everyone is tired of it. The …
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Cinemassacre – The AtmosFearic Garage of the Supernatural
Here we have part 2 of the History of Haunted Tours, “The AtmosFearic Garage of the Supernatural.” Yes, it’s as corny as you can imagine, in a good way, of course. This was James’ last haunted house and as such it was not only his best (at least, we can presume so) but he also …
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Cinemassacre – History of Haunted Tours (1993-1998)
Ah, Halloween, pretty much my favorite time of the year. I’m certainly not alone in feeling this way, of course, and one of the many people who shares this opinion of that oh so spooky end to October is James Rolfe! Of course, if you’ve seen any of his Monster Madness videos from the past …
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Space Can Be Overwhelming At Times – A Major Update
I wouldn’t normally ask, but I’d really hope everyone hitting this page does take some time to read this, to see what being a blogger can be like when things go bad. October has been an incredible month here on Xadara. I’ve cranked out more articles than nearly any other month ever, and have had …
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