On Thursday, the Joomla project (the content management system that powers this site) released the first beta of Joomla 1.5. I would have called it Joomla 2.0, personally, because 1.5 is a major rewrite of the CMS code-base. To implement it on my site will require quite a bit of work, but that’s okay because I had big things planned for Website 19 anyway.
North Korea Conducts Nuclear Weapons Test
North Korea, a reclusive Communist nation lead by Kim Jong Il, has conducted a successful nuclear weapons test and is now the eighth declared nuclear-capable nation. This development has received near-unanimous worldwide condemnation, including condemnation from the United Nations Security Council.
Roger Waters and Reading Progress
I know, I know. I said I’d try to get back into the habit of more-regular postings, and I didn’t do it. I’m a bad, bad webmaster (lol). In all seriousness, things have been pretty busy but things have also been pretty good. I was on a high for about a week after seeing Roger Waters in concert a week-ago Saturday.
The Politics of Old Opinions
In this goofy political culture, anything any politician ever said or wrote in their entire life is apparently fair game for opposition mudslinging. According to recent reports by the hyperventilating local and national media, you would think that the race for Senator from Virginia is between an avowed racist Republican and an avowed sexist Democrat. I think both characterizations are false and unfair.
U.S. Senate, Virginia, 2006
In the race for the Senate from Virginia, staunchly conservative incumbent George Allen (R) is pitted against novelist and former Secretary of the Navy Jim Webb (D) and long-shot candidate Gail Parker (IG). Allen was Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1994-1998 and is vying for his second term in the Senate.
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.