I was preparing for another late night of getting articles out for you when, while chatting with a friend on Facebook I got an alert that one of the plugins I use on the site was no longer active. I was surprised, but thought little of it until I noticed I was seeing ads on […]
Remember MySpace? The social network that was dominant before Facebook? They made news last month due to (somehow) losing all the music ever uploaded to the site from 2003 to 2015, apparently during a routine server migration. Yep, all that data just gone, no proper backups, no real recovery or redundancy plan, no nothing. Yeah, […]
As I’m sure most everyone has seen, a few days ago on April 10th the first photo ever of a Black Hole was released. An object that in effect should be impossible to visualize was captured, thanks to a lucky arrangement of the gasses surrounding the object. The entire story on just how it was […]
I hope this is the last I have to write about HTTPS and this site. I’m going to keep this one short and to the point, but I feel I’m going to have to commit to HTTPS only going forward with this site. This isn’t what I want to do, but in the week or […]
I mentioned the other week about having not played Destiny 2 for nearly a year, and that I wanted to get back to it as on a whole I really do enjoy the game and would love to play it more, but I had gotten kind of bored with it as it began to just […]
Yesterday was a bit of a mess for me publishing anything. I had a bit more intended than what I got out (which was only the review of AVGN episode 51) but with limited time to actually write and publish I had to pick my battle, and that article was the one I decided to […]
Today, April 2nd, 2019, marks the death of Google+, Google’s much maligned social network service. For many, this is something that has been a long time coming, but I actually have a different outlook on this event. The reason? I actually liked what Google+ was! At least, in general idea, and a few things it […]
You know the deal – new month, new games. I’m not wanting to draw out this intro as, honestly, writing about these feels like a bit of a chore but it’s sometimes nice to get to address something about these games that may (or may not be) mentioned in the Microsoft video, and this month […]
This article is going to be written presuming you at least know a bit about the history of the Macintosh and Mac OS X in the early years. If not, I’ll leave some links for reading in the article, but I’ll hope to explain things well enough that it all makes sense on that alone. […]
Long time readers may recall I was pretty big on Destiny 2 last year, playing it pretty regularly and sometimes writing about it here where I felt it relevant. By about May of 2018, though, I just stopped, and haven’t really fired the game back up at all since that time. I figured it’d be […]
Wow, I’m quite behind on this little series, and so many things have changed in the past 6-9 months regarding all these computers and stuff it’s almost not worth continuing, but whatever, I’m still going to tell it. So, move back to June 2018. It was the same week that I got the G5. At […]
I’m in the market for a new phone right now. Having been an Android user who went to Windows Phone then back to Android for the past few years, I’m pretty certain I’m wanting to grab an iPhone this time around. In fact, I already know the one I’m wanting to get – no, not […]
Today, March 12th, 2019, marks effectively the 30th birthday of the World Wide Web; the most well known aspect of the greater computer network known as the internet. More accurately, today marks the 30th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee the “father” of the Web, submitted his paper, titled ” Information Management: A Proposal” to CERN, which […]
Far back into last year (far longer ago than it should have been) I wrote about an idea I had to cover the BBC Computer Literacy Project here on Xadara. It being a major part of computer history and one that, as the title implies, is very much British, I felt taking a look at […]
I had a long post planned here, but didn’t feel it was quite right, so I’ll try to keep this as short as possible. No, I won’t have the usual in depth explanations of what I mean here – I’ve done enough of that, and and won’t waste my time explaining it further. People choose […]