WordPress Doesn’t Make It Easy Sometimes

Some of you might have noticed that I had to basically re-publish my article earlier on the NASA film “Skylab – The First 40 Days.” This was due to WordPress, the blogging software used on Xadara, being a bit of a pain in the ass due to me having to edit a few things around. …
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So Much To Do, So Little Time – An Update

Oh boy, another one of these updates. I’m sure you all just love when it’s one of these posts and not actual content! (That’s sarcasm, by the way.. just thought I’d clarify) Anyway, right, this is going to be a quick one. I’ve been a good bit more busy than usual with many other things, …
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The Chaotic Mess That Is Any Attempt For Me To Cover E3

I don’t know what I was thinking in trying to cover E3 this year. This entire event is, quite simply, far too massive for me to take a stab at given I’m just one person, and I don’t even like E3 all that much to begin with. The core presentations alone are far too much …
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New Old Computers, A Week Off, And More – An Update

Oh, hi. You might remember me. My name is Chris, and I’m the guy who used to write an article a day here at Xadara, but over the past 6 months has cut back on this, much to his own displeasure. As much as I’m trying to get back to heavy writing, I wind up …
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What’s Coming For June 2018 On Xadara

May 2018 proved to be quite a productive month for me and my blogging – 29 articles, more than I’ve done since January. I guess I’m getting back into the swing of things. Of course, the 45th anniversary of the launch of Skylab helped with that, giving me a set of articles to write about …
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So, Postimage Might Not Be As Good An Image Hosting Solution As I Thought

I apologize that I don’t have more time to go into this in this article, but I wanted to throw this out there quickly enough for what it’s worth to other bloggers and those interested in the subject. Last year Photobucket began charging for the ability to hotlink images – something bloggers have been using …
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Our Privacy Policy Has Been Updated (AKA The “GDPR” Article, Short Version)

Yesterday new data privacy laws took hold in the European Union. These laws, known as the “General Data Protection Regulation” or, GDPR, very basically, and I do mean in a very basic form allow European Union residents to demand a company they have data with get rid of said data at that users request (or …
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What’s Coming For May 2018 On Xadara

The past 3 months have been quite a mess for this site – quite a bit less content, and some slightly different types of content out of what had been published were the norm. Certainly not how I wanted to start out the year, to say the least. While the slight shift in subject matter …
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Mind The Gaps – An Update

As you can tell, my previous statements about getting back to normal article writing rates on Xadara haven’t fully come to pass as I hoped they would. Thankfully much of this has actually been intentional, if the root cause hasn’t been something I expected or planned for. Just about a month ago, coinciding with a …
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Slowly Getting Things Back To Normal – An Update

I mentioned previously that for some strange reason, I just haven’t felt like working on Xadara as much as I have over the past 2 years. I don’t know if it’s burnout, general frustration and exhaustion, or just being too busy with other things, but for whatever reason I went from about an article a …
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When You Just Don’t Feel Like Working On Your Own Website – An Update

Anyone taking a look at this site will notice something – I have barely written anything in damn near 3 weeks! I’ve gone from nearly every single day writing at least one article, if not more, to barely getting one out every few days. What’s happened? Honestly, nothing… nothing I can put my finger on. …
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The Past And Future Of Xadara

As I’m sure a regular reader will be able to tell, the past year has been quite an interesting one for Xadara. Not only did it mark the first full year of nearly daily writing, which I’m almost certain resulted in nearly 400 articles (in and of itself quite the achievement, I think) but it …
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Blogging Stress – An Update

If you look back over the site for the past month or so, you will notice that at the very tail end of December, things just stopped. Completely. I made a few posts stating pretty clearly what I was feeling at the time, and still am honestly, but what I didn’t go into was detail …
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What’s Coming For 2018 On Xadara

Here we go, the first post for 2018! Might as well open up the year with the typical update entry, but this time, like 2017, I’ll cover my broader plans for the entire year! As I’ve hinted at in a few previous articles, I’m planning to somewhat go back to the sites roots this year. …
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