Melissa and I have been busy getting literally thousands of photos together, sorted, and uploaded so that we can share them with you. We’ve installed a gallery management system on the wedding website behind-the-scenes, but want to get a lot more organized and posted before we open it for business. There are about 1500 ‘official’ wedding photos from Bella that will need to be sorted (they should be arriving on CD soon), and Melissa is still trudging through about the same number of shots from the Honeymoon . . . so bear with us.
New WTC Tower Design Made Public
It looks like they may have listened to a little of what I said when it was first announced that New York’s upcoming Freedom Tower would be redesigned. It still doesn’t beat Trump’s plan, but at least they’re heading in the right direction.
Democrats Make Up Something to Complain About
After reading today that many Democrats are criticizing President George W. Bush’s (R) for supposedly linking the Iraq War to the 9/11 attacks in 2001 in his speech last night, I have to face a bothersome realization: Democrats either weren’t listening, or they think everybody in the U.S. is really stupid.
An Eminent End to Individual Property?
“No person shall . . . be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”—Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The Supreme Court’s narrow 5-4 majority has an interesting interpretation of ‘public use.’
A User’s Analysis of Apple’s Intel Switch
While we were on our honeymoon, a strange story arrived in our cabin on the m.s. Statendam. According to the New York Times Digest—a source of dubious trustworthiness—Steve Jobs announced during the keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that Apple would begin a switch to Intel chips in 2006 and complete the transition in 2007.
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.