Minor Site Updates (Content & Style) [updated x3]

Posted May 5, 2006, 6:54 p.m.

I’ve been making some minor site updates over the past few days (not enough to bump the version number—still at 17.2). The changes will slightly improve readability and also affect some legacy content. Here are the changes:

Added a light gray border to the breadcrumb/pathway links to increase contrast.
Added a thicker row border and alternating background to content tables.
Added and rearranged legacy content (primarily school papers) to make sure they’re in correct categories and presented appropriately (including a note about which class each paper was written for).
[updated 5/12] Improved display of the poll results page in standards-compliant browsers. The IE problem on the poll results page appears to be fixed.
[updated 5/6] Opera (Mac OS X/Linux/Windows) in no longer a supported browser. Opera is used by significantly fewer than 1 percent of my visitors and has many un-fixed rendering bugs. I recommend Opera users switch to Safari or Firefox.

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

The worst tempered people I’ve ever met were people who knew they were wrong.

Work is sometimes its own reward. Mostly, however, it is the price we pay to get the things we want.

[A boundary is] an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.

No type of cruelty can tear down the religion established by the mystery of Christ’s cross. The Church is not diminished by persecutions, but rather increased.

We must overcome our enemies by gentleness; win them over by forbearance. Let them be punished by their own conscience, not by our wrath.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

[A conservative is] a statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a liberal, who wants to replace them with others.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

In a word, the true morality of Christianity is love. And love does admittedly run counter to self-seeking—it is an exodus out of oneself, and yet this is precisely the way in which man comes to himself.

Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped; and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year.

Thus while walking along the road one needs not to be thinking of the end at every step.

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

No matter how formidably communism bristles with tanks and rockets, no matter what successes it attains in seizing the planet, it is doomed never to vanquish Christianity.

But the mere fact that social order reigns to some degree does not mean that a given society has come to explicitly understand its own behavior, its own moral code.

On the other hand . . . you have different fingers.

History [is] a distillation of rumor.

I am a gun. I have challenged the waves and crossed a vast, unforgiving sea. I have landed on these shores. I am held by the pilgrim, the pioneer, and the trail blazer. I have brought civilization to a barren wilderness.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

God has created me to do him some definite service. . . . I have a part in this great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught.

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