LiveJournal announced yesterday that it has been purchased by Six Apart. Six Apart is best known for being the creators of the Movable Type content management/blogging system and the TypePad blog service.
Door Contest; Car Trouble
I forgot to mention that Mike and I won the Plexus Holiday Door Decorating Contest in the Technology category (this was all the week before Christmas). We took that old IBM ThinkPad I have (Dinky Thinkum) and hung him up with heavy-duty twine, two wreath holders, and some stabilizing velcro.
LiveJournal Feed Working; RSS Fix for Firefox; Photos Up
The Off on a Tangent LiveJournal feed is working again. If you are a LiveJournal user, just add “lifenewsblog” to your friends list.
Additionally, the site RSS feed has been properly flagged so that RSS-aware browsers (like Mozilla Firefox, the preferred browser for Windows and Linux users) will know the feed is there. This makes it an easier process to add the Off on a Tangent feed to live bookmarks and RSS aggregators so you can be among the first to know when new content is available!
Also, the Photos section (under ‘Random’) is now populated with most of what was on the old site.
v.16 Launched! List of New Features and Changes
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
2005 marks the 10th year that I’ve had a presence on the internet, and to start the year off right I’m now launching the most advanced website I’ve ever made.
Off on a Tangent version 16 marks my switch to the flexible Mambo content management system. As a result, there are a lot of new features and I’ve made some organizational changes. Let me tell you what I’ve done:
Not Affiliated With Chantilly High School
There’s something I have to get off my chest.
This particular something goes all the way back to the spring of 1997 when I was a second-semester freshman at Chantilly High School here in Fairfax County. It involves internet technology, the first amendment, personal grudges, overreaching education officials, and police harassment. It is a sordid story that ultimately ended well, but it is a story that I never had the opportunity to tell on my electronic soapbox (due to a parent-imposed gag order).
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.