Site Infrastructure Changes

Posted March 2, 2009, 10:33 p.m.

As I mentioned on Saturday, I spent part of my weekend making some pretty big adjustments to the back-end of the web site. Since I worked from home today (given the close-to-a-foot of snow), I had a little extra time today to wrap all that up. The infrastructure changes are finished, and everything seems to be working just fine. It should work exactly the same as it did before, but there’s always a chance that I screwed something up so please let me know if you find anything amiss.

The main idea was to simplify the management of Melissa’s and my various web sites by moving many of them to the same back-end system. That way, it’s much quicker and easier for me to apply updates, security fixes, and so on. I also took the opportunity to do a lot of general ‘house cleaning’ around the various MySQL databases and filesystem directories that make up this site and the various other sites we manage.

I hope you all are enjoying the snow!

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.

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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.

The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains. Therein lies the profound difference between the individual and the whole.

The corruption of the best is the worst of all.

I look upon myself as a man. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

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.

Moral responsibility is an individual matter, not a social matter.

Okay, so I lost The Tonight Show, but I’ll show them . . . I’ll stop shaving.

God give us courage to protect the unborn child, for the child is the greatest gift of God to a family, to a nation and to the whole world.

Authentic love is an act of the will that has two vital elements: self-sacrifice and commitment.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Have you been calumniated, my friends? Have you been loaded with insults? Have you been wronged? So much the better! That is a good sign; do not worry; you are on the road that leads to Heaven.

However, it would be the height of irrationality to postulate innumerable universes just to explain the particular features of our universe, when we can do so by postulating just one additional entity: God.

For it is better to suffer for doing right, if that should be God’s will, than for doing wrong.

An unjust law is no law at all.

Cursed are all who hate you; blessed for ever will be all who love you.

[The federal government’s] jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any.

Law is order, and good law is good order.

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

I still feel you should rock the boat. And if you’re not in it, you should turn it over. But not unthinkingly.

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