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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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Wednesday’s a snooze day

Wednesday’s a snooze day

| April 29, 2009 | Reply

MORNING LINKS ITEM: Speaking of swine flu hysteria, this may be a good time to invest in pork belly futures — there may be a shortage soon. ITEM: Yet another way in which Western Europeans are looking for the US to help them financially. ITEM: Here’s a slideshow of items from the Michael Jackson Neverland […]

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Tuesday’s a blues day

Tuesday’s a blues day

| April 28, 2009 | Reply

MORNING LINKS (Yeah, didn’t feel like doing overnight links last night) ITEM: The photo above says more than a thousand op-eds on how unseriously the Obama Administration is taking the threat of terrorism. While the White House is scrambling to distance Obama himself from this idiotic stunt, a lot of people had to sign off […]

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Monday’s a new day

Monday’s a new day

| April 26, 2009 | Reply

MORNING LINKS — apparently, Monday’s also a snowy day ITEM: I went to bed with rain falling outside and woke up to about an inch of snow on the ground, with more falling. And apparently we could get more on Friday Morning (May 1st). ITEM: For about two years before things collapsed, my co-blogger, Bruce […]

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Thursday spurning

Thursday spurning

| April 23, 2009 | Reply

OVERNIGHT LINKS ITEM: I figured that Janet Napolitano had some kind of security credentials beyond being a Democrat from a border state who was current on all her taxes. It doesn’t appear so (the credentials, that is; not the taxes; hat tip to the Drudge Report): In an interview broadcast Monday on the CBC, Ms. […]

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Wednesday earning

Wednesday earning

| April 22, 2009 | Reply

MORNING LINKS — yeah, I’m up early ITEM: Jim Lindgren over at the Volokh Conspiracy does the simple investigation that no news organization (except possibly Fox) seems willing or able to do. His finding: states with the highest unemployment rates have high tax and unionization rates, while states with the lowest unemployment rates have low […]

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Tuesday burning

Tuesday burning

| April 21, 2009 | Reply

[For those coming in from Ace of Spaces, here’s the link to the “Atlas Shrugged” review] MORNING LINKS Item: I swapped e-mails this week with “S. Weasel” who runs one of my favorite blogs. She and her significant other (now husband) recently moved to England; she loves it there, but in her e-mail to me, […]

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Monday churning

Monday churning

| April 20, 2009 | Reply

[For those of you coming in from Ace of Spades HQ, here’s the Atlas Shrugged review.] AFTERNOON LINKS ITEM: Visualization is always a good thing. The Heritage Foundation graphically illustrates the minuscule nature of Obama’s proposed  — and far from realized — cuts (hat tip to Instapundit): MORNING LINKS — things are heating up a […]

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<i>Atlas Shrugged</i>: a brief review w/spoilers

Atlas Shrugged: a brief review w/spoilers

| April 17, 2009 | 8 Replies

“Mr. Rearden,” said Francisco, his voice solemnly calm, “if you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling, but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater […]

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Denver Tea Party — photos and report

Denver Tea Party — photos and report

| April 15, 2009 | 3 Replies

Sandra and I rode the Denver Light Rail (first time!) from Lincoln Avenue up into downtown Denver. Our first clue that there might be a good turnout was the fact that the train were were on was full of people with signs: And as we walked up to the Colorado State Capitol, we saw that […]

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On our way to the Denver Tea Party

On our way to the Denver Tea Party

| April 15, 2009 | Reply

Update: all done and now eating lunch @ Chili’s. Will post photos and report when I get back home. Great rally, no disruptions. Update: here at the tea party – rowdy group – prob. 3000+ here Trying to blog from my iPhone. Riding the lightrail to downtown Denver. Train is full of people with signs. […]

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