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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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No wonder Ford showed a profit

No wonder Ford showed a profit

| November 5, 2009 | Reply

From USA Today: The Obama administration’s $3 billion “cash for clunkers” program should be renamed “cash for gas-guzzling pickup trucks,” according to an Associated Press analysis of the data. AP reports that for 8,200 deals — the most common — buyers traded in their old Ford 150 pickups for new Ford 150 pickups. Fuel economy […]

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“Bloom County” is back!

“Bloom County” is back!

| November 4, 2009 | Reply

OK, not “back” as in “all new strips”. “Back” as in the complete collection of strips in a series of hardbound volumes (just like “Calvin and Hobbes” and “The Far Side“). I always liked “Bloom County” better than “Doonesbury”; both strips had liberal sensibilities, but Breathed never took himself or his strip as seriously as […]

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Oh, what a beautiful morning…

Oh, what a beautiful morning…

| November 4, 2009 | Reply

…oh what a beautiful day! McDonnell wins in Virginia by nearly a 20% margin; ditto for the Republican candidates in the Lt. Governor and State Attorney General races. Christie wins in New Jersey in spite of Democratic control of the state top to bottom. And, of course, Obama isn’t watching the returns. Went to New […]

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Samuelson: “Could America go broke?”

Samuelson: “Could America go broke?”

| November 2, 2009 | Reply

When Robert Samuelson starts asking that question, it’s time to worry: The idea that the government of a major advanced country would default on its debt — that is, tell lenders that it won’t repay them all they’re owed — was, until recently, a preposterous proposition. Argentina and Russia have stiffed their creditors, but surely […]

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Previews of our brave new world

Previews of our brave new world

| November 1, 2009 | Reply

Via Wesley J. Smith at Critical Condition (National Review Online) comes this ‘death panel’ tale from the health care paradise to the north of us: Bonnie Cameron and Cindy Waters-Goodman do not know each other, but they have much in common. Both are feisty, small-town Ontarians who were young, busy mothers when hit with diagnoses […]

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Funny math from the White House — Colorado version

Funny math from the White House — Colorado version

| October 31, 2009 | Reply

Much like Cash for Clunkers, but on a vaster scale, the Obama stimulus package is being revealed as a fraudulent failure. The Denver Post shows that the numbers here in Colorado just don’t add up: The federal government reported Friday that Colorado created or saved 8,094 jobs through grants, loans and contracts funded by the […]

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Paranormal (legislative) activity

Paranormal (legislative) activity

| October 30, 2009 | Reply

Yeah, the process scares me as well. Hat tip to Mark Tapscott at the Washington Examiner.  ..bruce w..

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Friday morning cartoon

Friday morning cartoon

| October 30, 2009 | Reply

I’ve got a nephew (CPL Darren Green, USMC) who’s just coming back from Afghanistan (Helmand Province, no less). I’m very thankful he wasn’t one of the ones that Pres. Obama met at midnight at Dover AFB, and that my sister, brother-in-law, and niece didn’t have to travel there to meet him as well. While (like […]

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I’m dreaming of a white . . . Halloween?

I’m dreaming of a white . . . Halloween?

| October 29, 2009 | Reply

It started snowing here about 9 pm on Tuesday evening and hasn’t stopped since. The wind has been blowing constantly, pretty much between 10 and 20 mph (I can’t tell for sure — my outside anemometer appears to have frozen up). The local news station is reporting 14″ of snow so far here in Parker […]

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Midweek music: “The Warrior Song”

Midweek music: “The Warrior Song”

| October 28, 2009 | Reply

Hat tip to American Digest for the link. I’m in the early part of a two-day winter storm, still struggling a bit with the flu and reading documents. I’ll be back by the weekend.  ..bruce w..

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