Author Archive: bfwebster

Webster is Principal and Founder at Bruce F. Webster & Associates, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University. He works with organizations to help them with troubled or failed information technology (IT) projects. He has also worked in several dozen legal cases as a consultant and as a testifying expert, both in the United States and Japan. He can be reached at bwebster@bfwa.com, or you can follow him on Twitter as @bfwebster.

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Winter Sunset — wallpaper

Winter Sunset — wallpaper

| January 3, 2007 | 3 Replies

[UPDATED 11/23/07] Note that I’ve now placed all my wallpaper photographs (including this one) in their own page on this blog (you can also use the ‘Wallpaper’ tab in the pages bar above). [UPDATED 01/04/07] Many thanks for Gaius over at Blue Crab Boulevard (one of my favorite blogs) for the link and the kind […]

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Just the thing to use when making your New Year’s resolutions

Just the thing to use when making your New Year’s resolutions

| January 2, 2007 | Reply

Here’s a website where you can type in your age — and see what other people accomplished at that same age. For example: At age 53: Ludwig van Beethoven completed his Ninth Symphony despite being so deaf that, at the end of its first performance, he could not hear whether the audience was applauding. Best-selling […]

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A window into the past

A window into the past

| December 31, 2006 | Reply

Gaius at Blue Crab Boulevard has a link to a wonderful set of archives: the complete scanned (and searchable) archives of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (a newspaper) from 1841 to 1902. I love sources of information like this: they remind us both of how different life was back then and, simultaneously, how similar it was. […]

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The Great Denver Blizzard — Round 2 — moving away

The Great Denver Blizzard — Round 2 — moving away

| December 30, 2006 | Reply

The low pressure system causing this storm has shifted east and south, limiting the blizzard impact to the eastern and southern portions of Colorado — which means at this point, we’re not going to get much more in the way of snow. I spent two hours snowblowing the driveway early yesterday evening, and it’s stayed […]

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The fine art of self-defense

The fine art of self-defense

| December 29, 2006 | Reply

In which a woman reminisces about how her (former Marine) father taught her to stand up to some bullies when she was six years old: My Mother balked at this idea. She didn’t think little girls should be fighting. Little girls were supposed to have tea parties and then play dress up. Fighting was for […]

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The Moonbats are far too predictable

The Moonbats are far too predictable

| December 29, 2006 | Reply

[Updated 12/30/06] A thought just hit me: I wonder how many Americans will see the flags at half-mast for the death of Pres. Gerald Ford and think instead that they have been lowered for Saddam Hussein? (As a side note, I’ve cleaned up the formatting of the comments below.) Saddam Hussein, one of the worst […]

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The Great Denver Blizzard — Round 2 — Dodging the Bullet (sort of)

The Great Denver Blizzard — Round 2 — Dodging the Bullet (sort of)

| December 29, 2006 | Reply

I did go out last night and spent an hour or so getting the driveway cleared off — it’s much easier and faster when you only have 2″ to 8″ of snow on the driveway instead of 2′ to 5′. Getting up this morning, I see there isn’t that much more new snow — only […]

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Some Thoughts on Emergency Preparedness

Some Thoughts on Emergency Preparedness

| December 28, 2006 | 2 Replies

Given that Colorado is, for the second time in as many weeks, in a declared state of emergency — and I, of course, am in the declared state of Colorado — I thought this might be a good time to join in the discussion that’s been going on around the blogosphere during the past year […]

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The Great Denver Blizzard: Round 2

The Great Denver Blizzard: Round 2

| December 28, 2006 | Reply

Well, what a few days ago was looking like a day or two of “light snow” has turned into a prolonged storm (in two waves) that may end up leaving as much snow as the Christmas Blizzard did a week ago. As noted, we’re facing two storms; the first is expected to leave somewhere between […]

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The Vance Integral Edition (VIE): A Review (Introduction)

The Vance Integral Edition (VIE): A Review (Introduction)

| December 27, 2006 | Reply

The Vance Integral Edition (VIE) is one of the more remarkable publishing feats of the last 50 years. It is a 44-volume set of the complete works of Jack Vance, corrected and restored (as far as possible) to the author’s original manuscripts and titles with the direct help and cooperation of Jack Vance and his […]

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