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.
When I first saw the headline on the front page of the on-line edition of the Rocky Mountain News — “No more competition: Boulder says bye-bye to valedictorians” — it sound like yet again a case of political correctness and self-esteemism run amok in our public schools. However, much to my pleasant surprise, when I […]
We’re in the process of trying out some new WordPress themes for the blog, so if things look a little jumbled or aren’t laying out quite right, that’s why. ..bruce..
I’m not a veteran, though my co-blogger Bruce Henderson is. But my mother (the genealogist) sent me a list of veterans in our extended family. Here’s the list (with a few additions of my own) in rough reverse chronological order: Jon A. Webster, USMC (active) — currently at Camp Pendleton, awaiting deployment to Iraq [son] […]
The Japanese have released video taken from lunar orbit using an HDTV camera. Unfortunately, it’s been released as a Flash movie, and the size is fairly limited (both probably due to bandwidth issues), so it’s not as spectacular as one would like (I personally want this in 720p Quicktime). And since the link was posted […]
Just today I’ve had some communications with Jerry Sheehan at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). During the San Diego fires, they were also providing information to the public via the web, working with NASA to generate and publish satellite imagery of the fires (click on the photo and scroll down to […]
MIT is suing the architect and construction firm responsible for their (relatively new) computer science complex: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has filed a negligence suit against world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, charging that flaws in his design of the $300 million Stata Center in Cambridge, one of the most celebrated works of architecture unveiled in […]
Just a few minutes ago — while I was out doing yardwork — this blog had its 100,000th visitor! And, appropriately enough, from San Diego. Of course, the fact that 2/3rds of those visits came during the last two weeks — and most of those in a 5-day period — takes away most of the […]
We’ve been getting Google search hits looking for details on an Interstate 5 closure; my own digging shows that “a suspicious device” has been found near the intersection of I-5 and Genesee: The discovery of a possible pipe bomb alongside Interstate 5 in the Torrey Pines area forced a complete shutdown of a stretch of […]
From What Bubba Knows: If only the anthropogenic global warming data looked half this convincing… ..bruce w..
The San Diego Union-Tribune has two interactive maps of the San Diego fires available online: A map showing the extent of the fires, including the ability to see where each started and how widespread it was at key points, with some data overlays (population density, median home prices) A Google map showing houses burned in […]