So I haven’t talked about my recent car troubles yet. I mentioned earlier that my Chrysler smacked me in the head with flying plastic, but I didn’t mention a strange thing that had happened a few days before that. I was stuck in rush hour traffic, and I noticed that my temperature gauge had shot up to ‘hot’ and had a warning light on. I started frantically running through things in my head (will it make it home? should I pull over? etc.) while watching the gauge, whose warning light went off and the temperature reading dropped back to normal.
Website 17 Progress; Proposed Major Navigation/Structure Changes
I began work in-earnest late last week on the development of Website 17, and have created a new look-and-feel that I am very happy with (and managed to make it work as a Mambo template). The new site will remain primarily blue-and-gray themed, although I’m bringing back some more color and using some brighter tones to make it more punchy (taking volumes of feedback into consideration ;-)). I’m also reintroducing the classy curvyness that the site lost in the CMS transition from Movable Type to Mambo, now that I know how to do it right within the Mambo template system.
Employee of the Quarter? Etc.
My division at work (Information Sciences) had our quarterly meeting yesterday at a lounge in Rosslyn. This meeting is where we all hear from our division manager about how the group (and the company as a whole) is doing and what we intend to do in the future. To my surprise, it was announced during the meeting that I was one of two people selected as IS Division Employee of the Quarter. I’m humbled by the honor and appreciative of the recognition.
Piano Scale Chart
Following up on my Piano Chord Chart, I have now developed a Piano Scale Chart. The chord chart made it possible for me to play some basic rock-style piano without any formal training, and this new chart will allow me to move even further in the self-teaching process. Expect some more of these ‘cheat sheets’ as I continue learning (and, if it works well, I might even eventually write a ‘Scott Bradford Piano Method’ book).
Attacked For Their Looks
An excellent column by Cheri Pierson Yecke in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune today. Yecke is a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives who—like me—is tired of politicos resorting to name-calling in lieu of debate.
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.