So things remain busy. We were out of town last weekend visiting family, which was a lot of fun, and things have been a little crazy at work. The good news though is that I got a new[ish] company IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad to play with, which is now successfully rigged as a dual-boot Windows XP & Ubuntu Linux machine. No more outdated desktop for me!
Internet Explorer 7 Now Supported
Off on a Tangent is now supported in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (released recently). IE7 offers many important security improvements over IE6, and users who wish to continue using the IE browser should upgrade (if they are running Windows XP). I still recommend using more secure browsers such as Mozilla Firefox. Please let me know if you find any problems using the site in IE7.
Website 19 Development Kick-Off
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.
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.