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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Last night I committed to what I had posted in my previous article (Why I’m Ditching The Graphene WordPress Theme) and said adios to the overall much beloved and very well used Graphene theme which I had run on my site for many years now, instead switching to what has been an alternative for some […]
One of the reasons I love using WordPress to manage my site is the massive number of customization options out there for the software – between plugins providing specific extension capabilities to the site experience and themes allowing me to quickly and easily find a look and feel that works for me as a base […]
If you take a look at all the posts so far for the month of October, you will notice one common trend – they are all space related! I haven’t had a single post from the other side of things I cover, tech, gaming, and just “whatever” kind of stuff all month! The funny thing […]
A new month means a new set of plans for what I’m going to do on the site. I rather enjoy setting up a basic plan at the beginning of the month, regardless of whether I actually stick to it or not it’s at least nice to have goals, and October is going to be […]
I feel like I picked the worst month to devote to daily writing. I’ve stayed far busier than I expected to during the past few weeks, and I feel like this isn’t going to change as we move into the last 10 days of September. The good news is that so far I’m at 24 […]
It’s the middle of the month, and I thought I would do a bit of a recap on the whole “one article per day no matter what” project. It’s quite a chore, honestly. Some days don’t permit me too much to be able to write anything substantial, while others, like yesterday, give me all the […]
I’ve got more normal content coming tomorrow, but for today I wanted to cover a thought I just had with regards to what I write on any given day; a problem that most any blogger will understand and relate to. Should you write about currently trending topics, or about topics which have withstood the test […]
Here we go, another super rushed end-of-the-night entry, but I’m keeping my “one article each day in September” goal! I’ve been debating for pretty much the entirety of this sites heavily active period (read, the past 2 and a half years) the idea of running posts on a schedule. I’ve done this before, actually, with […]
Right now it’s 11:30 P.M. I’ve got 30 minutes to figure out what I want to write about before it’s tomorrow and I effectively fail my personal challenge to write at least one article per day for September. Well, since I don’t have much time, why not a quick write-up on just why I am […]
Oh, it’s the first of the month. Might as well get this article written because, why not, right? August wasn’t a bad month, I’d say. The highlight was, of course, the Parker Solar Probe launch, which was a hell of a show. I got quite a bit of progress done on fleshing out the site […]
As I’ve been slowly documenting, I’ve had quite a few Macintosh computers enter my digital life recently, and naturally I want to incorporate these machines into my workflow. Sure, I’m a blogger primarily, and you can do that on damn near any machine that can manage to run the WordPress back end, but I feel […]
In what can only be described as an example of insanity, I mentioned previously my intentions to cover the BBC archive of television programming from the BBC Computer Literacy Project of the early and mid 80’s, and at this stage I think I’m ready to begin tackling this mighty challenge. The BBC archive of programing […]