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:
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).
Great music is based on two fundamental things: The musicians’ desire to emulate other great musicians, and their desire to do their own new, creative thing. It takes equal parts of each to make an excellent album. Jet’s debut, Get Born, is a great example of this seemingly contradictory fact.
Well, the deal to move the Montreal Expos Major League Baseball team to Washington, DC, (and rename them ‘Washington Nationals’) looks like it may be falling apart. I figure it’s finally time to chime in.
First off, while ‘Nationals’ is a decent name, I was rooting for ‘Wombats.’
On this date in 1941, Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, killing more than 2,400 Americans. It remains one of the worst unprovoked foreign attacks in this history of the United States, and its impact on our country in the years following was comparable to the impact the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has had on our country in the few years since.
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.
