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.
If you have photographs of the fire (and its aftermath) or specific current information about fires, evacuations, and so on that you’re willing to have us post, please contact either of us (Bruce Henderson or Bruce Webster) via e-mail. ..bruce..
Assuming the maps put out by San Diego County are accurate, the advance of the Harris Fire has definitely slowed today. Here’s the SD County Map as of 1800 PDT today: This hasn’t changed all that much from the map that San Diego County put out at 0530 this morning. Here’s the updated information as […]
Our web-hosting firm, without any prior notice, turned off our web site at around 11:00 am PDT on Tuesday morning. I found out about 20 minutes later that is was due to bandwidth issues; we had had about 35,000 hits since Monday morning, and we had about 1,400 people on line simultaneously at the time […]
A mandatory evacuation order has been issued for Fairbanks Ranch: Reverse 9-1-1 calls are going out to issue mandatory evacuation orders to 1,197 Fairbanks Ranch households, city officials said. Residents can take shelter in the Encinitas Senior Center at 1140 Oakcrest Park Drive and Carlsbad High School at 3557 Lancer Way. My daughter Jacqui (as […]
UPDATED 10/23/07 – 1831 PDT: This evacuation has been canceled. There is a mandatory evacuation in effect for parts of Del Mar west of Interstate 5: Here are the actual details: A mandatory evacuation order remains for all areas of Crest Road, and San Dieguito Drive, Oribia Road, Avenida Primavera along Crest Road, Serpentine Drive, […]
The Harris Fire in southeast San Diego County is making the residents there increasingly nervous. As you can see from this updated (0530 today) map, the fire has moved beyond the evacuation area and is following Hwy 94 right up into Spring Valley: My sister, Jacque Hoffman, and her son Devon went up to the […]
[Be sure to check out the post below this one.] [UPDATED 10/22/07 – 2351 PDT – bfwebster] San Diego County has issued the following status information on the Witch Creek and Harris fires as of 7:51 pm PDT (10/22/07) : WITCH FIRE: The latest update from CALFIRE reports the fire is now 145,000 acres and […]
It just hit me a few minutes ago: I’ve been watching (on DVD) the 1982 stage production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, my favorite of Stephen Sondheim’s musicals, courtesy of Netflix. And I’ve just finished baking a homemade turkey pot pie. Good pie, too. 🙂 ..bruce.. (If you’re wondering why this […]
I have never been much of a baseball fan. That’s largely due to two factors: four years spent as a mediocre, nay, wretched player in Little League during my elementary school years; and growing up (1960s and early 70s) with the San Diego Padres as the hometown team (let’s just say those weren’t their greatest […]
This posting over at Colony Worlds argues that we’d be better off colonizing Ceres (the asteroid) before we colonize Mars: Ceres however is located within the “mineral field of dreams,” dancing around the sun between 2.5-3 AU (or astronomical units). This places the icy world in the heart of the metal rich zone, the majority […]