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.
Uh oh; here we go again. From the National Weather Service, as of 4:30 am this morning: A WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON. HEAVY SNOWFALL IS POSSIBLE ACROSS ALL OF NORTHEAST COLORADO THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY. THIS INCLUDES THE DENVER METRO AREA AND ALL THE URBAN CORRIDOR. ACCUMULATIONS…IN […]
Over the past few years, the mainstream media has done a fair amount of sniffing over the arriviste mob of bloggers and how they aren’t real journalist, while ignoring their own propensity for bias, sloppiness, and logical fallacies. This made it all the more, ah, delicious to read one the best, most methodical examples of […]
As soon as the sun was decently up, I resumed my effort to get our driveway clear from snow. This photo shows what I had done yesterday for the area in front of our garage and front door: After another hour or two of eating away at the large drift across the top of our […]
[FINAL UPDATE: 5:17 pm on 12/21/06]: Last few photos. [UPDATED 12:10 pm on 12/21/06]: Yet more photos. [UPDATED 9:00 am on 12/21/06]: I’ve added more photos. [UPDATED 7:34 am on 12/21/06]: I’ve added photos. Well, we were planning to be in San Diego for Christmas (we being myself, my wife Sandra and our daughter Emily). […]
I’ve known Ruby for a decade or so. She came up to me after I gave a session at a technical conference on the need for leadership in IT organizations and offered both cogent observations and useful criticisms. We’ve been friends ever since and just recently co-authored an article for Cutter IT Journal titled “The […]
Well, the WordPress problem continues, so I can only post from my server system at home. Combined with the travel I’ve been through over the past several weeks, I haven’t gotten on here much. However, I’m not going anywhere until Christmas, so I’ll aim at posting daily here. ..bruce..
It’s called Deviation, and it’s “filmed” within the FPS game Half-Life: Counter-Strike. Since I have three sons who collectively have spent more hours and years playing first-person-shooter games than I can comfortably conceive, I find the film particularly amusing. ..bruce..
There’s been some controversy lately over the plans of a Massachusetts elementary school to ban tag. Elle Dee, over at this is by us, has started a thread named “Games We Played that were Much Worse than Tag“. Here was my own contribution: Back in 1958-60, our family lived in the West Kalayaan US Naval […]
I’ve reached that point in the election season where I largely keep the TV off, except to watch shows that I’ve already recorded on my DVR and thus can hit the ‘CM SKIP’ button to help skip over the endless political attack ads. This ad, however, is an absolute hoot, as if a few of […]
From the ever-worthwhile McSweeney’s, here’s an excerpt of the findings from the Committee on Promotion and Tenure: Demonstrates suitable experience and expertise in chosen field: The committee concurred that Dr. Jones does seem to possess a nearly superhuman breadth of linguistic knowledge and an uncanny familiarity with the history and material culture of the occult. […]