Website 22 In Development

Posted November 19, 2010, 10:29 a.m.

It’s hard to believe, but the current version of my site (v21) launched in May 7, 2009. I did minor updates on December 20, 2009, and July 4, 2010, bringing the version to its current v21.2, and have made some tweaks around the edges, but all-in-all the site looks about the same today as it has for over 18 months. (As always, you can see what almost all previous versions of the site looked like on the Retro Websites page.)

Anyway, it’s time to start planning the next version: Website 22.

I’ve already done my mock-ups and designs, so I have a pretty good idea of how it’s going to look, but I haven’t done much implementation work on it yet. What that means is that you should share any thoughts or comments you have about the site now. I’m always open to (constructive) criticism, so please let me know what you think of the site and what I can do better. Your feedback will very likely influence the final product.

When I launched Website 20, the first version on the WordPress blogging and content management system, I derived a lot of my code from the default WordPress template at the time and combined it with a lot of custom code I’d written for previous sites (on Joomla). In Website 21 I re-factored basically all of my code and bolted on some new WordPress functionality as it became available (like their new menu system), but most of the WordPress-derived bits just came over un-changed from the previous version. My main technical goal for v22 is to re-sync with the WordPress default template code, but I’ll also continue improving and streamlining my custom stuff.

I’m also going to be changing how the mobile site works a bit. . . . More details on that after I figure out exactly what I’m doing ;-). And there will be a brand new Easter Egg, so if you haven’t found the one that’s out there now (and has been there since version 20) you should hurry up.

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

But once you find the truth, you ought to be prepared to stand on the street corner and use all your gifts to right the wrong.

You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don’t already believe it.

One man may prefer a routine job with much time off for basking in the sun to a more exacting job paying a higher salary; another man may prefer the opposite. If both were paid equally in money, their incomes in a more fundamental sense would be unequal.

I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.

I don’t think goodness is something that you learn. If you’re left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior, and in that, I can learn of him.

A methodology that can scarcely do other than confirm the hypothesis that it was designed to test is not valid social science.

The more base and corrupt a man, the more ready is he to charge crimes to others. Those who want credit for good character foolishly believe that the best way to get it is to denounce others.

Do not say, “His mercy is great, he will forgive the multitude of my sins,” for both mercy and wrath are with him, and his anger rests on sinners.

I am dumbfounded at how little philosophical and metaphysical importance the human mind has attached to the vital subject of excrement.

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men’s struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus.

It was always accounted a virtue in a man to love his country. With us it is now something more than a virtue. It is a necessity.

You will admit that it is impossible to please God and the world. That can never be.

You know, Gina, Apple [Computer Inc.] is like a ship. That ship is loaded with treasure, but there’s a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction.

A smile or a tear has no nationality. Joy and sorrow speak alike in all nations. . . .

I am unacquainted with [the Creator’s] designs, but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather mistrust my own capacity than His justice.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

I have seizures of momentary sanity.

I can’t help but laugh when I am condemned for believing in Heaven, Hell, and an invisible God by people who believe in invisible matter and hidden dimensions.