Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

LiveJournal Feed Working; RSS Fix for Firefox; Photos Up

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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

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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:

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Not Affiliated With Chantilly High School

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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).

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Jet—Get Born

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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.

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MLB and DC strike out . . . thank God

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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.’

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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.