Promotion; Apartment with [almost] no Windows

Posted April 26, 2005, 8:08 p.m.

So the reason I’ve been so nutty/busy/tired lately is that I got a promotion at work. I’ve become the Content Manager overseeing development and content posting on the three DOD and Army websites that I’ve been developing on. Currently, I manage one temp and will be managing an intern when she arrives in a few weeks. Until I get the hang of all these new responsibilities, I’ll probably be spending my evenings trying to decompress.

In other news, I’ve essentially eliminated Microsoft Windows from my household. The two former-Windows machines (Q-Who and Dinky Thinkum) are both now running Ubuntu Linux. I’m still getting a few functions up and running, but overall the new system works great. I still have Windows 2000 SP4 in Virtual PC (on my Mac) for the increasingly-rare occasions when I need it (mainly for website testing).

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.

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We humans are judgmental people, and we can’t turn off that feature of our brains. Nor would we want to do so, since judging our environment is what keeps us alive.

Scott Adams

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

Ulysses S. Grant

The great enemy of any attempt to change men’s habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by inertia.

Edward Bernays

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Thomas Carlyle

Neither can Creation be fully grasped by physics, since scientists cannot go outside the cosmos to measure it. It is akin to a child trying to prove a final theory of how his house works when he is incapable of toddling outside its doors.

Stacy Trasancos

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.

Max Planck

One reason inflation is so destructive is because some people benefit greatly while other people suffer; society is divided into winners and losers.

Milton Friedman

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

Laurence J. Peter

Evil men, in order to appear innocent, load accusations of guilt on those whom they have wronged.

Fulton Sheen

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality, or Christian morality to Nazi morality.

C.S. Lewis

The word ‘no’ is a complete sentence.

Unknown

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy.

George Washington

Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Universal Dec. of Human Rights

No one man, therefore, or any class of men, have a right, by the law of nature, or of God, to assume or exercise authority over their fellows.

Anonymous

The ancient world did in fact experience the birth of Christianity as a liberation from the fear of demons that, in spite of skepticism and enlightenment, was all-pervasive at the time.

Benedict XVI

A robber is free to ransack a house when the owners are away, but it is absurd to say that he loves the owners because he is free to steal. The purest liberty is that which is given, not that which is taken.

Fulton Sheen

Some advocates of science insist that questions science cannot answer are meaningless, but I find this unconvincing—and unattractively narrow-minded. The pursuit of science has led me to conclude that the future is open and novelty is real.

Lee Smolin

On the other hand . . . you have different fingers.

Jack Handey

Communist morals follow a simple formula. Anything which promotes the communist cause is good; anything which hinders it is bad.

W. Cleon Skousen

We are to pray for all mankind, without exception . . . ; for every man, be he enemy, stranger or infidel, is our neighbor, whom God commands us to love. . . .

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