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.
…historians and social anthropologists will still be mining “The Simpsons” for insights into 20th/21st Century civilization. But apparently not via YouTube — the clip I linked to disappeared (“We’re sorry, this video is no longer available”) just a few hours after I posted it. Ah, well. Anyway, hat tip to Eschaton while it lasted. ..bruce […]
You’ve heard about the Clinton-crying-in-New-Hampshire incident — now see the footage: Hat tip to PowerLine. UPDATE! The clip below is frankly more entertaining (in any sense) and better-acted than the one above — pretty sad (but not surprising) when Andrew Lloyd Weber gets upstaged by “some random chick on YouTube”: Hat tip to The Jawa […]
The media tends to operate on a hype/anti-hype cycle (following Shannon’s theorem that the value of information is inversely proportional to its probability). So it was refreshing to read this post over at The Jawa Report that takes the current poll swings among Republican presidential candidates — each of which has been declared ‘toast’ or […]
Unqualified Reservations is a new addition to my daily blog reading, largely because of posts like this one: A better way to think of our present financial system is to compare it to Microsoft Windows. Windows is indeed complicated. It is astoundingly, brilliantly, profoundly complicated. If there is anyone in the world, even at Microsoft, […]
Just ask Jeff Jarvis: — Google is the “fastest growing company in the history of the world.” – Times of London, 1/29/06 — Google controls 65.1% of all searches in the U.S. at the end of 2007 and 86% of all searches in the UK, according to measurement company Hitwise. — Google was searched 4.4 […]
Language Log is one of my favorite blogs. It is a gathering of linguists, mostly unrepentant descriptivists, who don’t hesitate to bring to bear their full education and resources on, well, issues that only language geeks (like myself) would wonder about. Here, as a sterling example, are a pair of posts exploring the origin of […]
Roughly 18 months ago, I wrote a post about the problems with the industry’s inability to agree upon a next-gen DVD format — leading to the split between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. Among other things, I said the following: So now we come to the next generation solutions for video playback: HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. During the […]
George Santayana famously said: Progress, far from consisting in change, depends upon retentiveness…Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Victor Davis Hanson, the noted military historian and classics professor, reminds us of the recent past in Iraq: After the victory of the 1991 Gulf War, a bipartisan consensus had emerged that […]
Forget that last posting; like almost every other predicted snowfall this winter, the actual accumulation was much less than predicted and didn’t have a lot of impact. Unlike today. As late as yesterday morning, the local weatherpeople were calling for “flurries” here in the front range (the plains and foothills east of the Rockies), and […]
A year ago today, I was blogging during the Great Denver Blizzard — which, as it turned out, was just the first of a series of weekly snowstorms that kept the ground covered with snow for two months straight (and missed by just a few days setting an all-time record here in Denver). Welcome to […]