Last week I was planning to ease into the year with some “lighter” subject matter, ranging between some tech projects I’ve been working on to things a bit more serious but still nothing too extreme — some light social commentary. Then Wednesday happened – the Capitol “Siege” that has somehow been the most hilarious yet […]
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 […]
It’s just about 6PM Central time for me as I begin writing this, and the year 2020 is coming to a close. Normally I’d take a bit of time to do a retrospective of the past year but, as we all know, it’s been a bit of a mess, to say the least. Even I […]
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 […]
I’m in the process of copying nearly 400 gigabytes of data to an external hard drive for archival purposes – some of it certainly will be deleted, if not most of it, with the remainder organized and stored away where it needs to be. The bulk of this is all data from previous projects which […]
I don’t hide the fact I’m a bit of a packrat, especially when it comes to data archived on computer systems both local to me and remote. Earlier in November I wrote about finally cleaning up my email inboxes of mail that, in some cases, has been archived for over 15 years. That’s, in some […]
A yearly tradition…
I didn’t realize until the other day that I’ve been running a Bulletin Board System for the past 6 months! To be fair, this particular “version” of the board didn’t start until June 6th of 2020 – the previous few weeks the system was running on a Raspberry Pi as a “test” board, but in […]
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 […]
The same night I did repairs on my Core 2 Duo Mac mini, nicknamed “Lion” I found out there was a bit of an issue with my other Mac mini, the Core Duo system I used as a basic file host and affectionately dubbed “Miniserv” for its role as a Mac mini “server.” In this […]
I generally try not to get too political here, but given that 2020 has been one hell of a year on virtually all fronts I figured now is as good a time as any to just kind of let loose with what I’ve been wanting to say on this subject. That is, the way the […]
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 […]
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 […]
In the past few months, along with my growing interest in the pre-world-wide-web internet and, before that, bulletin board systems I’ve also have a very related interest in the telephone system of yesteryear. At the time, it was in some ways the largest machine ever made by humanity and when you really get into just […]