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.
InsideCRM has a list of the 20 Worst Capital Investments of All Time. As someone who actually helped successfully raise venture capital for a software startup — a total of $7 million, which lasted us for five years — it hurts to see the vast sums squandered on some of these companies: Pets.com: This icon […]
Maybe all those cheesy 50’s monster movies were right: The fossil, found in a 390-million-year-old rock, suggests that spiders, insects, crabs and similar creatures were much larger in the past than previously thought, the researchers said. “This is an amazing discovery. We have known for some time that the fossil record yields monster millipedes, super-sized […]
“Space for all people” may sound nice, but who establishes (and enforces) the rule of law? I’m a very simple man, and here’s my simple understanding of property law: say I’m a solar-farmer on the moon, just selling my electrical output to them city-folk across the ridge at the spaceport. Pirates, who’ve mutinied against the […]
As I’m typing this, I’m looking over my shoulder and watching a live HD transmission from the International Space Station (being carried on the Discovery HD Theater channel). Of course, NASA is managing to make it a bit dull (I’m not really interested in what the astronauts eat, at least not for a limited-time HD […]
From Slashdot comes a link to this postmortem by the Princeton University team competing in the DARPA Grand Challenge for autonomous vehicles: It was the closest thing to a memory leak that you can have in a “managed” language. C# manages your memory for you by watching the objects you create. When your code no […]
…from Megan McArdle, who is currently traveling through both countries: For some of the people around Ho Chi Minh City, of course, we were the good guys in the war; I spoke to a fair number of people who had relatives who had fled to the States after fighting on the South’s side in the […]
OK, I’m not a big Katie Couric fan, and I think her poor ratings at the CBS Evening News have nothing to do with sexism and have a lot to do with her just being the wrong choice for the spot. But this makes me like her a whole lot more: If you don’t get […]
The W.A.T.C.H. “2007 Worst Toys List“. After all, I have 10 grandkids (and two more on the way) to think of. The “Jack Sparrow’s Spinning Dagger” looks especially cool. ..bruce w.. P.S. “W.A.T.C.H.”? Didn’t acronyms with periods after each letter go out with U.N.C.L.E.?
I’ll bet. The American Society of Civil Engineers is demanding that a video spoofing their investigation of the levee failures in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina be removed from YouTube: A long-simmering dispute about whether a leading engineering organization whitewashed the role of the Army Corps of Engineers in the failure of the levee system […]