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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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Thursday throes

Thursday throes

| March 12, 2009 | Reply

We aim to please (most mostly we aim to hit) . . . MID-MORNING UPDATE: The FBI raids the office of the DC Chief Technology Officer, who is (or was) Vivek Kundra, who is now the new CTO for the Obama Administration. However, it appears that the focus is not on Kundra, but on two […]

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Wednesday’s woes

Wednesday’s woes

| March 11, 2009 | Reply

Fresh, hot cup o’ links for you. . . .now with morning update (new links at the top)! The bad news is that we’re only a year away from the next election cycle. The good news is that the Democrats fear a looming train wreck. And speaking of panic . . . . One of […]

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Tuesday morning links

Tuesday morning links

| March 10, 2009 | Reply

First off, don’t miss Henderson’s analysis of the pending missile shot by the North Koreans. Opposition within Congress to the cram-it-through legislative approach of the Democratic leadership: “The process by which these changes have been forced upon this body is so deeply offensive to me, and so deeply undemocratic, that it puts the omnibus appropriations […]

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Monday morning roundup

Monday morning roundup

| March 9, 2009 | Reply

Links worth reading: Democrats try to rebrand earmarks as good government. Not a surprise, since they’re also trying to rebrand trillion-dollar deficits as good economics. And speaking of good government, Rep. Charlie Rangel responds to direct questions about his tax issues. Robert Samuelson weights in on Obama’s approach to the economic crisis: Confidence (too little) […]

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Morning roundup o’ links

Morning roundup o’ links

| March 7, 2009 | Reply

I browse so you don’t have to: A catalog of exoplanets (planets outside our solar system), courtesy of the Planetary Society. Isn’t this just like a reporter? (Hat tip to Dave Barry) The next hot bumper sticker. No, really. Victor Davis Hanson on “Obamafusion“. And speaking of which…. The Law of Unintended (But, Frankly, Entirely […]

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A reminder from years past

A reminder from years past

| March 6, 2009 | Reply

As Ben Franklin put it, “Experience is a dear [i.e., costly, expensive] school, but fools will learn at no other.” Hat tip to Instapundit.  ..bruce w..

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Liberating stats

Liberating stats

| March 6, 2009 | Reply

I’ll let you figure out why I added all the categories that I did.  ..bruce w..

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The masses stir

The masses stir

| March 5, 2009 | Reply

Yep, this about sums it up: Hat tip to Gerard Vanderleun at American Digest.  ..bruce w..

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The more things change…

The more things change…

| March 3, 2009 | Reply

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. . . .Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1 (1905) To the left is the new logo chosen by the Obama Administration for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). In other words, […]

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Caption contest

Caption contest

| February 28, 2009 | Reply

I ran across this photo of VP Joe Biden over at the Wall Street Journal Photo Journal and felt it cried out for captions: My first thought was: “So, whaddya think? Sauteed? Roasted?”  ..bruce w..

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