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.
[UPDATED 02/04/09 — 1124 MST] It appears that Josh Marshall (see below) is just echoing President Obama (maybe that’s what Josh means by “Talking Points Memo”), who said in different interviews yesterday (scroll down to “Little Pork Spending in Bill”) that “most of the programs that have been criticized, as part of this package amount […]
The wonderful Stimulus Watch website gives you an opportunity to see what funding is proposed in the House Stimulus package for any part of the country. I decided to look up Colorado, and in particular Parker, which is where I live, in hopes of doing some first-person investigation of any proposed projects. Nothing. In Parker, […]
Let’s look at the track record so far, two weeks into the Obama Administration: Tom Daschle, now-former nominee for Sec’y of Health and Human Services, leaves the Senate, earns millions of dollars per year for uncertain work, fails to pay taxes and has heavy lobbying-like involvement from the health industry; his withdrawal was announced after […]
Visualization is the key to comprehension: Hat tip to Mother, May I Sleep with Treacher? ..bruce w..
The new chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael S. Steele, is giving his acceptance speech as I type this: What’s appalling (still) is that the #2 vote getter was a white Southerner, Katon Dawson, who had belonged to a whites-only country club all the way up until last September. Sheesh, have they no clue? […]
…but even I don’t think he deserves this: The website says this is the “determined pose”. The George W. Bush Chia Pet appears to have been discontinued. ..bruce w..
Courtesy of a long chain of links (here’s where I found the graphic, over at Megan McArdle’s outstanding blog), here’s a chart showing total credit market debt as a percentage of US GDP: I’m not sure that vastly expanding the money supply in the United States is the right answer. ..bruce w..
Pardon my French, but everything else that came to mind was even more profane. Courtesy of The Corner at National Review Online comes the link to this chart showing how the Fed has pumped up the money supply lately: That little tiny blip around 2000 is apparently when the Fed “flooded” the money supply in […]
Earlier today, I watched live TV coverage of the second White House press briefing by new White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs (the first was yesterday). To their credit, the White House press corps were not at all easy on Gibbs, perhaps due to some growing frustrations with President Obama and his interactions (or lack […]