Site Notice: Friday Afternoon Downtime

Posted August 25, 2005, 6:49 p.m.

Even though I’m still under the influence of Dayquil, I am planning to launch the next version of Off on a Tangent with a new look and a new navigation structure beginning tomorrow afternoon (Friday, August 25). What this means is that some time around 4:00 p.m. ET tomorrow, this website will become unavailable for at least a couple of hours.

Because the new site is a drastic change from the current one and will require a lot of back-end changes in the content management system (CMS), Off on a Tangent may be down for longer than expected. Worst-case, it may not come back until some time on Saturday. I don’t expect any major problems, but with a major redesign there is always a chance something will go drastically wrong.

Visitors to the site during this time will receive a downtime message, and that message will be updated with the current status if things don’t go quite as I expected.

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

Don’t be afraid of the truth, even though the truth may mean your death.

Instead of fostering assimilation and harmony, our schools are increasingly a source of the very fragmentation that they earlier did so much to prevent.

More often than you’d think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

The word ‘no’ is a complete sentence.

The restless busy nature of the world, this I declare is at the root of pain.

The more project management you do the less likely your project is to succeed.

For the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million [Russians], I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: ‘Men have forgotten God . . . ’

Only the most cynical, hopeless philosophy insists that reality could be improved through falsification.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can.

I am an American by choice and conviction. I was born in Europe, but I came to America because this was the country based on my moral premises and the only country where one could be fully free to write.

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

My brethren, if any one among you wanders from the truth and some one brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.

Should Congress . . . pass laws for the accomplishment of objects not entrusted to the Government, it would become the painful duty of [the Supreme Court] to . . . say that such an act was not the law of the land.

Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven. . . .

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

Trying to manage from the top down, when the bottom is out of control, may be the least effective approach.

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