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.
At least, not yet. That’s the assessment from Robert Samuelson, a commentator whom I respect: Regarding the economy, it’s hard not to notice this stark contrast: The “real economy” of spending, production and jobs — though weakening — is hardly in a state of collapse, but much of today’s semi-hysterical commentary suggests that it is. […]
One of the wonderful things about the internet is that if you wait long enough, someone somewhere will post just what you’ve always wanted. In this case, someone over in Germany had made a comparison between how food looks in ads and on packages and what the food actually looks like: Admittedly, it’s mostly German […]
[UPDATED 03/27/08 — some additions and a few corrections] Of course, I’m talking specifically about “anthropogenic [human-caused] global warming” (AGW), the cause célèbre of the Environmental Left. Here’s the short answer: because I have a degree in computer science, I’ve done professional work in simulations and modeling, and I’ve had classes in numerical analysis (not […]
“Shutter”, which just opened on Friday, is an Americanized remake of a Thai horror film named “Shutter” (or whatever the equivalent is in Thai). It (the remake) stars Joshua Jackson (“Ben Shaw”) and Rachel Taylor (“Jane Shaw”) as a newlywed couple that moves from New York to Japan so that Ben can take a job […]
We still have nearly eight (8) months left in this Presidential campaign. In fact, the campaign for the Democratic nomination alone is likely to go on for another five (5) months. Couldn’t have said it better myself. Hat tip to a comment posted at Pharyngula. ..bruce w..
Here’s a story about the cleanup — by the Guam Environmental Protection Agency(!) — of a ‘contaminated’ high-school pool (emphasis mine): 7:47 a.m. Guam – The Guam Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is tasked with issuing the permit to drain the Southern High School swimming pool. Spokesperson Tammy Andersen says no permit has been issued yet, […]
[UPDATED 03/22/08: Oh, by the way, according to the LA Times the city of Denver is ‘short on funds’ for the DNC convention.] The “Re-create 68 Alliance” didn’t get the protest permits they wanted for the Democratic National Convention scheduled for this August here in Denver — and they’re already making threats: Denver could […]
Ted Bronson has posted a wonderful essay (“Dad and the GD Bricks“) over at The Line is Here about the lessons that creep up on us in life: Once the wall was down, the detail work came into play. Often, many of the bricks would just fall out of matrix with no mortar attached on […]
Being the son of a career Navy man and the father of a Marine due to deploy to the Middle East sometime this year, I found this post to be great: 9. Accuracy is relative: most combat shooting standards will be more dependent on “pucker factor” than the inherent accuracy of the gun. 9.5 Use […]
Getting perspective
Here and elsewhere, I have decried the deliberate or inadvertent lack of historical perspective on current problems, particularly with regard to things military, and especially among the mainstream media and the Left. I come from a family with a strong and long history of military service and am myself a student of military history. My […]
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