On January 24th 1984, Apple released the original Macintosh computer. That was 35 years ago today and, surprisingly, I’ve seen very little discussion about this online beyond where you would usually expect to see it – some hardcore fan discussion, a tweet from Apple CEO Tim Cook, and a few news pieces, certainly, but nothing […]
Nothing lasts forever. Things break down over time, and inevitably everything needs to be replaced. This is something most people grow to accept pretty early in life, but no matter how used to this fact you get, it still sucks when something does fail, especially unexpectedly. In this case, as the title suggests, the graphics […]
Time for yet another update – this time one regarding all my projects, of which Xadara is really the only one that has been going steady. To make a long story short, January has been a pretty productive month, albeit with some challenges, for me and hosting. On New Years Day I discovered why the […]
In case you didn’t know, PlayStation 4 consoles, mainly the original series but this is still somewhat true with the Slimline models, have incredibly fragile HDMI ports. While no HDMI port will withstand deliberate attempts to break it, PlayStation 4 ports seem to break far more readily than most any other console in the past […]
I enjoy writing. That should be known from the large quantity of content I’ve written over the past few years. I also enjoy machines — at least, ones that catch my interest. I’ve written before about my love of the typewriter and how I discovered that I enjoyed them (all by a fluke accident, honestly.) […]
This is one of those questions someone has to have asked when seeing me online – just who in the hell actually is this person with the strange Japanese username? It’s a natural question to have, and I figured with us starting off the year why not provide a bit of an explanation as to […]
Oh, great, I went a week without posting anything. Go figure. I’m not going to lie and act like I’ve been super busy and just haven’t been able to update things here – I’ve had time, but I’ve been working on a few other projects. Actually, I’ve been pretty darn productive over the past week, […]
Yep, we’re pulling out that dirty word here on Xadara — Backlog. The backlog is what happens when I don’t get around to writing about some topics which interest me, but aren’t super urgent. Things I make note of to cover, but never get around to. It’s a constant source of stress and annoyance when […]
I’m a bit late to the party writing this one up, but as is tradition for the first post of the new year I’m taking to writing my possibly overly optimistic plans for the next 365 days or so. Right, let’s get to it. 2018 proved to be a rough year, much like 2017. My […]
Oh, look, it’s the end of the year. Cool. While a bit arbitrary it’s still an event happening, and is usually sued as a good point for recapping the past and for starting something new. That being the case, why not recap 2018 here on Xadara and put it all into perspective? Let’s begin. The […]
Woohoo! It’s about to be a new year and with that comes, well, a new month and new Games with Gold. 2018 wasn’t a bad year by any means – it had its high and low points, but on a whole provided a good selection of games and a few that I enjoyed checking out. […]
2003 would prove to be one of the most, shall we say, interesting years of my life. I’ll spare the details but it was chaotic, to say the least, and at a point during it much of what I owned was stolen. Not a great start to your adult life, but I learned quite a […]
When you’re young, 5 years is a long time. By 1998 I was 13 and in the 8th grade. Gaming wise I had gotten a SNES a year beforehand, in 1997, from a friend of the family (as SNES consoles were relatively cheap by this time) since my Genesis had long ago been broken, and […]
Being the age I am December 25th brings back fond memories of the Christmas days of my youth. This year was no different in that regard, but this year I noticed an odd pattern regarding those years and the “major” gift each year. Namely, the years 1993, 1998, and 2003. 25, 20, and 15 years […]
Yep. It’s another one of these posts. I know, I do this often, but there’s a reason. Beyond the fact I like to “think out loud” at times, I also find writing on the subject to be beneficial to me getting over whatever block I have happening at the moment, and right now we’ve got […]