Website 20.1 Revision

Posted September 6, 2008, 7:41 p.m.

Today I have launched a minor revision to the web site, bringing the version to 20.1. This is the first significant change to the site since I launched v.20 in April, marking the switch to the WordPress content management system. Here are just a couple of quick highlights:

Visual tweaks and adjustments (as always, these ‘minor revisions’ are where I start playing with new design cues that, if I like them, end up being a part of the next major redesign).
Adjustments to the display of list-view pages (for tags and categories). There was a lot of inconsistency before, which has been ironed out and these pages should work better across-the-board now. You’ll see a lot of improvement on the tag indexes (and, over the next few days, I’m going to aggressively tag all my old, un-tagged content).
Improvements to the LoFi view for mobile browsers—it should be a bit easier and faster to navigate around on the tiny-screen now.
Improvements to browser support—most notably the initiation of support for the Internet Explorer 8 betas (which had butchered my site previously) and some improvements in the new Google Chrome browser.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Holy Bible

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

Paul the Apostle

Just exactly what happened in the twentieth century, anyway? How was it that so many tens of millions had to die, sacrificed to the new dogmas and ideologies? How was it that we discovered something worse, much worse, than the aristocracy and corrupt religious beliefs that communism and fascism sought so rationally to supplant?

Jordan Peterson

Denying evil corrupts us spiritually and psychologically. Rationalizing our own evil is even more destructive.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

But perhaps [the bricklayer] is not merely laying bricks. Maybe he is building a wall. And the wall is part of a building. And the building is a cathedral. And the purpose of the cathedral is the glorification of the Highest Good.

Jordan Peterson

An individual who is observed to be inconstant to his plans, or perhaps to carry on his affairs without any plan at all, is marked at once, by all prudent people, as a speedy victim to his own unsteadiness and folly.

James Madison

When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Abraham Lincoln

As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame.

Elie Wiesel

We are very shy of asking questions of those who know enough to destroy with one word the hopes we live on.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Anyone who still needs to think about techniques on the battlefield will die.

Mattias Desmet

Don’t judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.

Josemaría Escrivá

An unjust law is no law at all.

Augustine of Hippo

If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions.

James Madison

Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest degree, but solely for the purpose of protecting ourselves.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Ambrose Bierce

State welfare leaves the poor with little incentive to improve their situation because their basic needs are being met. A free ride through life doesn’t help people in the long run—it destroys their greatest capacity to learn and grow.

Paul Skousen

The Son of God became a stumbling block when he humiliated Himself to the human level, taking on the form and habit of man. It is hard on the intelligentsia to believe that greatness can be so little.

Fulton Sheen

The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.

Rosabeth Moss Cantor

The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. . . .

Charles Spurgeon

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful to society, had that society been well organized.

Mary Wollstonecraft