July was a much better month. We’ve been through over half of 2018 with somewhat lackluster article rates, but the past week has been much better and, barring a small gap, July was actually a better month than previous for “getting things back to normal around here.” This is one of those times I kind […]
At the beginning of 2018, I set up a second blog here on Xadara, as a direct side effect to me feeling conflicted, shall we say, about discussing my more serious and critical opinions on certain current aspects of space and rocketry. That was, at least, the idea, and I quickly decided I didn’t need […]
It happened again. Much like I discussed back in December and January, I had another situation where the urge to write about something current actually inhibited my ability to work on this site. However, this time, I was able to think through the situation more clearly and came up with the most obvious of things […]
June went by quicker than I thought it would. I also didn’t get as much gaming content out as I expected – I kind of touched on what I wanted to about E3 and then went on about my days. A part of me thinks I should avoid E3 all together next year but at […]
I woke up this morning hoping to get an article out before my day gets busy, since I had the time and nothing else planned. I figured I would get something simple up to fill the gaps between those multi-article days. I loaded up the website only to discover nothing. Well, nothing but a 500 […]
Oh boy, another one of these updates. I’m sure you all just love when it’s one of these posts and not actual content! (That’s sarcasm, by the way.. just thought I’d clarify) Anyway, right, this is going to be a quick one. I’ve been a good bit more busy than usual with many other things, […]
I don’t know what I was thinking in trying to cover E3 this year. This entire event is, quite simply, far too massive for me to take a stab at given I’m just one person, and I don’t even like E3 all that much to begin with. The core presentations alone are far too much […]
Oh, hi. You might remember me. My name is Chris, and I’m the guy who used to write an article a day here at Xadara, but over the past 6 months has cut back on this, much to his own displeasure. As much as I’m trying to get back to heavy writing, I wind up […]
May 2018 proved to be quite a productive month for me and my blogging – 29 articles, more than I’ve done since January. I guess I’m getting back into the swing of things. Of course, the 45th anniversary of the launch of Skylab helped with that, giving me a set of articles to write about […]
Yesterday new data privacy laws took hold in the European Union. These laws, known as the “General Data Protection Regulation” or, GDPR, very basically, and I do mean in a very basic form allow European Union residents to demand a company they have data with get rid of said data at that users request (or […]
I mentioned previously that for some strange reason, I just haven’t felt like working on Xadara as much as I have over the past 2 years. I don’t know if it’s burnout, general frustration and exhaustion, or just being too busy with other things, but for whatever reason I went from about an article a […]
11 years ago today, I decided “hey, I need a website” and sat down to register the domain name www.xadara.com. I still don’t quite have a clue how I came up with that one (I really do think it was the name of my Maple Story character at the time (seriously)) but whatever the origin, […]
As I mentioned previously, February was a very very light month for me here – i wrote barely anything for the site! It isn’t that I didn’t want to, I just didn’t feel like keeping my usual pace – something I hope to not be the case this month. This month will mark 11 years […]
Anyone taking a look at this site will notice something – I have barely written anything in damn near 3 weeks! I’ve gone from nearly every single day writing at least one article, if not more, to barely getting one out every few days. What’s happened? Honestly, nothing… nothing I can put my finger on. […]
With the way January goes for me, I didn’t even realize until last night that it was February, and that I should do the now standard “What’s Coming” article where I state a list of plans that I know I won’t be able to keep up with! A wonderful tradition, to be sure. Right, I […]