Site Host Change

Posted December 5, 2009, 8:19 p.m.

You may have noticed some downtime last night and early today. Things were briefly wonky while I moved Off on a Tangent‘s (and our other sites’) web hosting to Network Solutions, my employer. As far as I can tell the migration went just fine and everything should be working. If you notice anything not working right, please let me know.

There are a couple other things that will be happening on the site over the next few weeks if/when I have time. There is probably a pretty large WordPress update coming out soon which I intend to apply fairly quick after it becomes available. I’m also planning to do a minor version update pretty soon to refresh the look a bit and improve some of the technical bits. More on those as they come.

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

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.

It is the weak man who urges compromise—never the strong man.

We have to call it ‘freedom.’ Who’d die for ‘a lesser tyranny?’

The United States has lasted well more than two-hundred years, but it is still young in the grand scheme of things. The apathy of the people can still be its downfall.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

Millennia passed before humankind discovered that energy is the basis of matter. It may take a few more years before we prove that wisdom and knowledge are the basis of, and can actually create, energy which in turn creates matter.

The price system works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time. We never realize how well it functions until it is prevented from functioning. . . .

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Play is, at bottom, growth, and at the top of the intellectual scale it is the eternal type of research from sheer love of truth.

Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich.

By attempting to measure the unmeasurable, measurement becomes a form of pseudo-objectivity. Instead of bringing the researcher closer to his research object, the measurement procedure leads him further away.

A tree that is unbending is easily broken.

We are not saved by reading and trying to live the Sermon on the Mount, i.e., by imitation. . . . God gave us not just words but The Word; not just a philosopher but a martyr; not just His mind but His Body.

Whenever men are unanimous on great public questions, whenever there is but one party, freedom ceases and despotism commences.

I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.

Normally, thought precedes word; it seeks and formulates the word. But praying the Psalms and liturgical prayer in general is exactly the other way round: The word, the voice, goes ahead of us, and our mind must adapt to it.

I tell you I have been misquoted everywhere, and the inaccuracies are chasing me round the world.

In three months I’ve gone from network television to Twitter to performing live in theaters, and now I’m headed to basic cable. My plan is working perfectly.

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