April Fools Site: System 6

Posted April 1, 2007, 4:06 p.m.

On April Fools Day 2007, my site appeared in black and white and labeled as Scott Bradford’s System 6. This entry now includes the explanation given and a link to the site as it appeared throughout most of the day on April 1:

Today, the first day of April, I’m proud to announce the launch of System 6 (Website 18.4), which brings this web site compatibility with the cutting-edge ‘Macintosh’ computer from Apple. The Macintosh, with 128kb of RAM, 3.5″ floppy drive, graphical interface, and a unique new device called a ‘mouse’, is the harbinger of things to come in the computer industry and I’m very happy I was able to make this site compatible with it and it’s crisp monochrome bitmap display. With these kinds of high resolution graphics becoming available to the general public, the ‘World Wide Web’ might actually take off in the next ten or fifteen years!

View the site as it appeared on April 1.

Some aspects of ‘April Fools Site: System 6’, particularly the Mac startup sound, are copyright © Apple, Inc. All rights reserved. Used under fair-use provisions of copyright law. The remainder is copyright © 2007 Scott Bradford Creative Enterprises. All rights reserved. This content is not licensed under any Creative Commons license.

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

Our characters are the result of our conduct.

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

Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify.

But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.

We hear only half of what is said to us, understand only half of that, believe only half of that, and remember only half of that.

How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning? Do you not seek a light, ye who are surrounded by darkness?

Any one who goes ahead and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God; he who abides in the doctrine has both the Father and the Son.

You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.

It is through strife, or the readiness for strife, that a nation must win greatness.

I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That ‘all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people.’

By rejecting conscience, certain persons have made shipwreck of their faith. . . .

Do not foolishly confuse ‘nice’ with ‘good.’

You make a thing voluntary and then half the people do not do it. That is not what you willed, but your will has made it possible.

Dwell on the past and you’ll lose an eye. Forget the past and you’ll lose both eyes.

Whoever hates reproof walks in the steps of the sinner, but he that fears the Lord will repent in his heart.

Every day one comes across somebody who says that of course his view may not be the right one. Of course his view must be the right one, or it is not his view. We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.

Hell is other people.

Make no mistake about it, however: you age as you drift, just as rapidly as you age as you strive.

A liberal is fundamentally fearful of concentrated power. His objective is to preserve the maximum degree of freedom for each individual separately that is compatible with one man’s freedom not interfering with other men’s freedom.

As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.