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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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The current financial mess explained

The current financial mess explained

| September 21, 2008 | Reply

Sort of: This stick-figure presentation at Google Docs (warning: explicit language) — which we linked to some months back — still remains the best (simple) explanation of just what went wrong in the global (not just US) financial markets. Think Lehman Brothers, Merril Lynch and Bear Stearns (not to mention Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac!) […]

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Video o’ the day

Video o’ the day

| September 17, 2008 | Reply

OK, after watching this video, I’m having to really rethink my support for Sarah Palin (and the old guy): Heh. ..bruce w..

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McCain images of the day

McCain images of the day

| September 15, 2008 | Reply

As I noted earlier, I actually like the underlit photograph of John McCain that moonbat photographer Jill Greenberg secretly shot while taking his photograph for the cover of The Atlantic. S. Weasel has now done her own photoshop of the underlit image: It sort of says, “Vote for me or die.” Heh. And here’s an […]

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Video o’ the day

Video o’ the day

| September 15, 2008 | Reply

This has been showing up in various places; I finally watched it and was moved: An observation on the closing song. Back in the summer of 2001, my wife Sandra and I attended the graduation from US Army boot camp (Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri) of our daughter Heather, who had joined the Utah Army National […]

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Just in case you were wondering…

Just in case you were wondering…

| September 14, 2008 | Reply

…the sun is blank — no sunspots: This is how the sun has been for the last six weeks or so.  ..bruce w..

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The discriminating Left

The discriminating Left

| September 13, 2008 | Reply

I’m starting to lose track here, but I think that the Democratic/Left/mainstream media attacks on McCain and Palin are coming close to running the full gamut of classes protected by US civil rights laws (see also here). Let’s see: Race/color Obama’s campaign (and Obama himself) has continually raised race as an issue in this campaign, […]

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Palin (and McCain) images of the day

Palin (and McCain) images of the day

| September 13, 2008 | 1 Reply

[UPDATED 2004 MDT] And here’s a great political cartoon posted over at Gateway Pundit: Finally, I actually really like this photo of John McCain (in an Addams Family sort of way): Apparently, this photo was taken by a (Democratic) photographer in hopes of getting The Atlantic to use it on its cover. [UPDATED 09/14/08 1618 […]

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Bibliophibians!

Bibliophibians!

| September 13, 2008 | 2 Replies

Great word: “bibliophibians”. Swap the genders of the two people in the Wondermark strip below, and you’ll capture the essence of many conversations that Sandra and I have had over the years (click on the strip to go to the full-sized original): The difference being, of course, that Sandra and I started out together with […]

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Speaking of infamy…

Speaking of infamy…

| September 12, 2008 | 2 Replies

…or at least cluelessness, the Obama campaign released (on TV) today an ad that, among other things, mocks McCain for not using e-mail or knowing how to use a computer, presumably because he’s so old (another theme of the ad). Here’s the ad itself (if it’s still up on YouTube): Personally, I think it’s a […]

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Lest we forget

Lest we forget

| September 11, 2008 | Reply

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