I was intending to write this article a month ago, around the 13th anniversary of this sites founding, but given how much chaos last month was it got delayed while I worked on some other more critical tasks. Today, to finish off this week I figured now would be as good a time as ever […]
I’ve been saying for years I want to get to doing game reviews on the website. As damn near archaic as the idea seems — reviews are quite “old hat” as they say that very fact that they are seen as so old fashioned and aren’t as common now as they used to be makes […]
Over the past year or so my “office” in one room of the house has become pretty much nothing but storage, and in the process my Macintosh systems as well as a few other Windows machines of varying vintages have been effectively inaccessible. Over the past week some work has been done on that room […]
We’re in quite a unique time in history, what with the whole Coronavirus situation and how that’s affecting life for most everyone on Earth in some way. That being said, most people are trying to, in one way or another, keep things pretty normal in their lives during this, and that’s no exception here on […]
Today marks 13 years since I decided “fuck it, I need a website” and registered the domain name xadara.com. In the past I’ve gone over the history of the site — how it started as a site for a music game related personal project, became more of a “general purpose” blog with some static, outdated […]
It’s been damn near two weeks since the last entry on this site and, now that the chaos has settled, it’s time for things to get back to normal around here. To say that when I wrote the “change is inevitable” entry I didn’t expect it to be such a dramatic case of life imitating […]
As you might have noticed, things look very, very different around here. That’s because I found a new theme I liked — this one going by the name of “Pen” and amazingly, for all its raw power, complex code, and beauty it’s free (with some premium options, of course.) To say the previous theme, Frontier, […]
They say the only thing constant is change. As much as I hate to admit it, they (whomever “they” actually are) are correct — it seems, in the end, the only thing you can really count on always happening is some form of change. It’s inevitable. Be it something natural, like a forest or a […]
At the start of February I said that “change” was coming to the site – a slightly different focus and flow was going to be the name of the game, so to speak. March is, honestly, going to be no different. I got a little sidetracked in implementing some of my plans this past month […]
If you’re any kind of creative individual you will likely relate to the fact that, inevitably, something you create will become something you wind up regretting. It’s extremely rare for anyone who makes anything to not have at least something they feel was a mistake, wasn’t good as it was released, or otherwise simply doesn’t […]
I honestly don’t even know this this post will actually get published, let alone shared, as currently I’m unable to get the “new post” page on Xadara to load. Well, that is, unless I disable the Jetpack plugin — a very helpful tool (practically mandatory for any serious WordPress blogger) which helps with statistics collection, […]
This isn’t exactly news that anyone is going to care about — it was something I’ve actually been wanting to do for a while, but simply hadn’t done due to the massive amount of procrastination I do on a daily basis — but I finally got rid of the Xadara Facebook page, to the dismay […]
I can sum up this entire article in one word — Change. That’s really, in its most base form, what’s coming to this site over the next month. As I prepare for the 13th anniversary of the site being started, I’m once again coincidentally put in a place where I feel some change is due, […]
It’s that time again — the annual birthday post. It’s funny, what people tell you is true — the older you get, the quicker the years go. Ah well, that’s the nature of life, is it not? Change, as well, is the nature of things. The world, and our lives, are ever changing whether we […]
Yeah, we’re a month late on this one. Don’t quite know how that happened, but better late than never – this time around I have, straight from the Echidna’s mouth, the plans my friend “Prince Watercress” has for 2020. For those who don’t know who he is, I’ll give you a short primer: He’s been […]