I’m happy to announce that the primary address for this site is now / and my primary email address is now scott@scottbradford.us. These changes became possible after last week’s migration to PowWeb’s new server environment which offers much more domain/subdomain flexibility.
USA Today’s Point/Counterpoint on Homework
An interesting point/counterpoint about homework appeared in USA Today this week. The paper’s editorial stance is that our educational system has fallen behind those in many other countries, and lowering the amount of homework assigned to students would only make things worse. The editorial writer states, “If anything U.S. schools are guilty of spending too little time on academics,” and “Surveys of international studies show the homework loads of U.S. students near the bottom.”
Happy Independence Day!
Today is the Fourth of July—the day on which citizens of the United States of America celebrate our independence. So on this day, as I have done in the past, I’m going to ask a favor from all my American readers:
Site Notice: Scheduled Weekend Down-Time [Updated]
Our hosting provider, PowWeb, got bought out by another company earlier this year. As part of the management and technology change, all PowWeb customers are having their sites migrated to an improved server environment.
COFUMC—’06 Annual Conference Report
I had the honor of again attending the Virginia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church as a lay delegate from this congregation. The Conference was held two weeks ago—from June 11th through the 14th—in Hampton, Virginia and was presided over by our bishop, Bishop Kammerer.
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.