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.
Via the immensely valuable Real Clear Politics comes a link to this USN&WR article about how Howard Dean’s “50-state strategy” is actually playing out. Sample: If that doesn’t sound revolutionary, consider this: Mississippi’s Democratic Party hasn’t trained precinct captains for more than a decade. Until recently, the state party consisted of a single full-time staffer. […]
Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager! Hat tip to Jonah Goldberg at National Review Online. ..bruce..
UPDATE (07/18/06): It’s unclear from this new article what the relationship is between the 1,100 questionable “hangers” and the 1,400+ “bad bolts” mentioned below — but in either case, one gets the sense that the “Big Crumble” was literally an accident waiting to happen, and tragically the first such accident was fatal. Hat tip again […]
Thomas Jefferson? Teddy Roosevelt? FDR? JFK? Ronald Reagan? George W. Bush? The answer is here. ..bruce..
This animated recreation (via physics modeling) of Flight 77 striking the Pentagon on 9/11 predicts specific incidents (such as downed light poles in specific orientations and a clipped generator) that are then verified with actual post-crash photographs. Fascinating to watch. But, of course, it was really a missile that managed to knock down five (5) […]
I sit to write this, having just moments ago finished Blue at the Mizzen, the 20th and final volume in Patrick O’Brian’s “Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin” series. This is my second time through all 20 novels — I enjoyed it even more than the first time. I am once again grateful that Patrick O’Brian lived long […]
A “study” by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) has concluded that Columbia is one of the top five happiest places to live in the entire world: LONDON (AFP) – The tiny South Pacific Ocean archipelago of Vanuatu is the happiest country on Earth, according to a study published measuring people’s wellbeing and their impact on […]
A group of techies who work at a campus credit union make a farewell video for a retiring boss to show him what really goes on when he’s not there. Hat tip to Ars Technica. ..bruce..
UPDATE (08/11/06): Slashdot has a story about how the first Blu-Ray drives won’t play Blu-Ray movies. Sheesh. The companies really don’t want to succeed, do they? (And welcome, Slashdotters! Feel free to look around a bit.) Jay Wrolstad at Personal Tech has a story that says that there will be no clear winner in HD-DVD […]
While I certainly have my opinions on the subject, I don’t have any particular expertise (beyond my personal readings in military history). In short, I’m not sure my opinions would shed better light or insight than those already to be found elsewhere on the ‘net. Here are some places I’d recommend: Counterterrorism Blog PajamasMedia TempletonThorp […]