Promotion; Apartment with [almost] no Windows

Posted April 26, 2005, 8:08 p.m.

So the reason I’ve been so nutty/busy/tired lately is that I got a promotion at work. I’ve become the Content Manager overseeing development and content posting on the three DOD and Army websites that I’ve been developing on. Currently, I manage one temp and will be managing an intern when she arrives in a few weeks. Until I get the hang of all these new responsibilities, I’ll probably be spending my evenings trying to decompress.

In other news, I’ve essentially eliminated Microsoft Windows from my household. The two former-Windows machines (Q-Who and Dinky Thinkum) are both now running Ubuntu Linux. I’m still getting a few functions up and running, but overall the new system works great. I still have Windows 2000 SP4 in Virtual PC (on my Mac) for the increasingly-rare occasions when I need it (mainly for website testing).

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

Quotes

No man chooses evil, because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

The word ‘no’ is a complete sentence.

There’s an old saying in Tennessee . . . I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee . . . that says, fool me once, shame on . . . shame on you. Fool me . . . you can’t get fooled again.

Nearly all that a boy reads [in the papers] in his teens will be known before he is twenty to have been false in emphasis and interpretation, if not in fact as well, and most of it will have lost all importance.

Movement is attributed to the mover rather than the one moved; wherefore homicide is not ascribed to the stone, but to the thrower.

Telling a woman that abortion is the ’empowering’ response to a crisis pregnancy is really telling her that she is not strong enough to handle motherhood. What a terrible and unrealistic way to view women.

Those who want to work for moral reform in the world must seek the glory of God before all else. . . .

On the contrary, God foretold hardship upon hardship in this world until the end of time. And you want the Christian to be exempt from these troubles? Precisely because he is a Christian, he is destined to suffer more in this world.

Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

A free Press is the unsleeping guardian of every other right that freemen prize; it is the most dangerous foe of tyranny.

We should recognize how in a culture where each person wants to be bearer of his or her own subjective truth, it becomes difficult for citizens to devise a common plan which transcends individual gain and personal ambitions.

Indeed, even unanimity of belief does not guarantee its correctness.

Each woman virtually summons every man to show cause why he doth not love her.

Great dangers always accompany great opportunities. The possibility of destruction is always implicit in the act of creation. Thus the greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.

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