I’m a little under the weather . . .
. . . check back later. ..bruce w..
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.
Sunday morning comic
For those of you who only know of this 1978 TV show from vague rumors, here’s some more background information. I tried watching the special all the way through about a year ago and couldn’t do it. I have wondered if the original Japanese novelist for “The Ring” (you watch a specific video tape and […]
BREAKING NEWS — Passengers held on JetBlue flight landing at JFK due to “sick woman” on board
A JetBlue flight that landed at JFK (New York) airport around 9 pm ET tonight would not let its passengers off for nearly half an hour, until two police offices went on board. The plane, which landed at gate 3 and was scheduled to turn around and go to Denver at 9:05 pm, instead sat […]
Cartoons for the day
Cartoon by Nate Beeler at the Washington Examiner. And now from S. Weasel over at, well, S. Weasel: On the road for the next few days; postings may be light. ..bruce w..
Dance, puppet, dance!
From Ace of Spades comes this clip (above) of MS-NBC making a real-time “correction” based on an e-mail from the White House. Upon watching it, my immediate thought was of the scene in “Broadcast News” where Albert Brooks (the brainy but uncharismatic journalist) is feeding background information for a breaking crisis to William Hurt (the […]
This just in . . .
Headline: Obama’s War on Fox News Becomes a Quagmire THE WHITE HOUSE – Despite the President’s promise of a swift and decisive victory, Obama’s War on Fox News has developed all signs of an unwinnable quagmire, making the White House even more isolated in its unilateral attempts to crush the growing media insurgency. As the […]
Yep, that makes more sense
xkcd hits it again. Click on the comic to see the original (larger) version. ..bruce w..
Daily financial visualization
Wondering just where that $1.4 trillion deficit comes from? Veronique de Rugy over at the Corner at National Review Online presents the breakdown: To be sure, the recession caused lower than expected tax revenue — $419 billion lower. But the bulk of the deficit is made of spending. A lot spending since it amounts to […]
How bad is the US job market?
Big Government offers this chart of unemployment trends in post-WW II recessions. Nice to see that the massive deficit spending on ‘stimulus’ has paid off so well. ..bruce w..
DOJ overreach
From this morning’s Washington Times: KINSTON, N.C. | Voters in this small city decided overwhelmingly last year to do away with the party affiliation of candidates in local elections, but the Obama administration recently overruled the electorate and decided that equal rights for black voters cannot be achieved without the Democratic Party. The Justice Department’s […]