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.
From the Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch: Frederic Arthur (Fred) Clark, who had tired of reading obituaries noting other’s courageous battles with this or that disease, wanted it known that he lost his battle as a result of an automobile accident on June 18, 2006. True to Fred’s personal style, his final hours were spent joking with […]
This article in the New York Times notes that the Library of America has given Cole Porter his own volume in their American Poets series. Porter is my all-time favorite songwriter and possibly the best songwriter America has ever produced or likely ever will — I have a hard time seeing someone else turn out […]
…but posting will be light over the next few days as I will be on the road. ..bruce..
Some links of interest (hat tip to Real Clear Politics) Robert Samuelson – always one of my favorite commentators Mark Hertsgaard – a view from the doomsayers John Stossel – a view from the skeptics And a weather report (ht to Instapundit): No tornadoes so far this year in Kansas and Nebraska (55-year record) ..bruce..
I once proposed this same ‘thought experiment’ some decades back to a good friend who had sincere concerns about the role of the United States in the Cold War. My response: first imagine the world without the United States, then imagine the world without the Soviet Union — which would you prefer? Little did I […]
First, I miss writing. Back in the 1980s and into the early 1990s, I wrote constantly about information technology—roughly 150 articles and product reviews in a little over ten years. I had columns in a series of magazines (The Space Gamer, Computer Gaming World, Softalk for the IBM PC, BYTE, Turbo Technix, Macworld) and actually […]
Rules of the Open Road
I am of an age (53) to remember when travel in the United States primarily involved roads that had, at most, two lanes in each direction (and that only if you were lucky). Interestingly enough, once you get out of major urban areas, it still does. Long cross-country stretches of the US Interstate Highway system […]
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