“I’m not buying the ‘indubitably’…”
Video o’ the day: Hat tip to American Digest. ..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.
Battlestar Galactica: 3 seasons in 8 minutes
The fourth (and final) season of “Battlestar Galactica” starts tonight, and here’s a brilliant summary of the last three seasons: In a remarkable show of love and devotion to my sweet wife Sandra, who’s out of town for at least another week, I’m merely recording BSG and will not watch the new episodes until she […]
Climate change impact: too few disasters
OK, given the apocalyptic hype over global warming climate change climate fluctuations, this is downright funny: Lloyd’s of London warned yesterday that an absence last year of natural disasters or man-made accidents was putting pressure on firms to reduce premiums in 2008. The world’s oldest and biggest insurance market said that though the lack of […]
“Sweeney Todd”: a brief review
I missed seeing Tim Burton’s “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” while it was in theaters. It was not for a lack of desire; it’s just that I don’t like going to the movies by myself, especially if my wife isn’t out of town — and she just wasn’t that interested in seeing […]
Vouchers v. public schools
This short AP article in the DC Examiner says it better than anything else (emphasis mine): WASHINGTON (Map, News) – Census figures show D.C.’s public schools spend more than $13,000 per student. That’s the third-highest figure in the nation when compared among states. A report released Tuesday shows that on average, school districts nationwide spent […]
New game for the Wii!
My son Wes sent me this link from ThinkGeek: As any good geek should know by now Japan has some of the wackiest and most unusual products anywhere. So when we were visiting Tokyo recently and saw lines of Japanese schoolgirls waiting to play an amazing new game for the Wii called Super Pii Pii […]
Another 9/11 debate
From the Onion: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories ‘Ridiculous,’ Al Qaeda Says Heh. ..bruce w..
Just because I’m feeling my age
I left a slightly snarky and flamebaity comment over at Slashdot on a post about problems with C++ education; among the deluge of responses, pro and con, was a post from someone saying that programming was a dead end and that “computers write programs”. I pointed out that I’ve been hearing that for decades — […]
GoreTV, revisited
Nearly two years ago, I wrote a post about the future of broadcast video, comparing Al Gore’s venture, Current TV, with YouTube and similar venues. The post ended thus: On our DirecTV satellite system, we have hundreds of channels, though fewer than we used to; we dropped all the movie channels when we discovered that […]