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.
In case you’re not aware, Microsoft is being sued for allegedly setting misleading levels of hardware compatibility for “Vista Capable” computers. In other words, the suit claims that Microsoft knowingly set low levels of Vista-compatibility for hardware, even though many of the computer models so designated would not be able to run anything above Vista […]
…and still one of the best: Hat tip to the Llama Butchers. ..bruce..
Here’s the news report: Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early “We will be pretending to count votes and we will be running totals through out the night.” ..bruce w..
A fascinating article about how the British Army used a professional stage magician in their fight against Germany in North Africa: Maskelyn’s inventiveness was awe-inspiring. Another thing, you see – or rather the German’s didn’t see – was that out there in the hot, flat, dry there aren’t a lot of reference points. A tiny […]
Since one of the two authors of this piece in the Christian Science Monitor is a partner at David Boies‘ law firm (as in David Boies, Gore’s lead counsel in Gore v. Bush), I assume this article is serious and not a parody: The 22nd Amendment is often described as prohibiting an already twice-elected president, […]
My sister send me an e-mail asking what I thought about the status of the US presidential elections right now. My reply was a bit lengthier than even I expected, but since my cohort Henderson has already posted his thoughts, here are mine. My original first choice was Giuliani, which I talked about at length […]
Gaius over at Blue Crab Boulevard (one of my favorite daily blogs) reports that Polaroid is shutting down the last of its manufacturing facilities for Polaroid cameras: When Polaroid users pulled a picture out of their cameras, an image would slowly appear before their eyes. Now, like the process in reverse, the image of the […]
My co-blogger Bruce Henderson, as well as a number of other commentators in both new and old media, have raised concerns about the fall election prospects for Republicans given the disparity (typically around 2:1) between Democratic primary turnout and Republican primary turnout in the same state. However, Will Franklin over at WILLisms — who always […]
