I am beginning some preliminary prototype and design work for the next version of this site—Website 17—and I’m interested in your comments. I want to know what you like and dislike about the look of the site, as well as your thoughts on how I can improve the organization and the content. Generally, how I can make Off on a Tangent better? Your input will be taken seriously, and stands a good chance of influencing the final site (whenever I get around to making it).
Va. Mother Charged With Abandoning Son, 4, on Beltway
I am so appalled by this story that I have no independent commentary. Read for yourself. . . .
Wedding and Honeymoon Photos Now Available!
Great news! We received the CDs with our wedding photos last night, and after Melissa feverishly sorted out the ones she wanted on the site and I feverishly resized and posted them we are now ready to share them with the world.
Metro’s Response To Alert Delayed
Another shining example of WMATA (Metro) competence. In this time of heightened alert for transit, a MetroRail operator responded to a report of a suspicious bag on the train by telling people to move it so she could close the doors. The train then proceeded through two more stations as passengers frantically evacuated on their own before transit police were finally called to investigate.
Man Shot in London Underground; May Have Been Terrorist
London police officers fatally shot a man on the London Underground this morning, and preliminary reports indicate the man may have been a new suicide bomber. This incident comes only a day after three failed bombing attempts in the system and one on a bus, and just over two weeks after more than 50 were killed in a similar, successful attack.
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.