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.
OK, I missed the last two days because of the blizzard that hit on Tuesday, leaving 6″ or so of “slushee” snow (Wednesday was mostly clear, but I would have spent most of the 11-mile route squishing through mud). So now I’m in Manhattan on business, and I walked from the the very south end […]
You think I’m kidding? Snow is falling, with wind gusts >30 mph. Nothing is sticking so far, but if I can trust the weather forecasters (who don’t have the best track record, frankly), we could see 6″ to 12″ of snow by tomorrow morning. Personally, I blame Bush. ..bruce..
I walked my standard 11-mile route clockwise today for the first time (up until now, I’ve been walking it counterclockwise). It’s like a whole new route: the up-and-down pattern is reversed, the ground underfoot is different, and the landscape when I look up is different as well. A couple of hills along the way seem […]
I walked yesterday but will be resting again today. ..bruce..
After a couple of very slow (>18 min/mile) days, I posted my best time to date: 2:55:10, or 15:55/mile. My goal is to finish consistently under 3 hours/11 miles, and to be able to break 15:00/mile on a weekly basis. I suspect I’ll need to lose some more weight in order to make that goal. […]
Gorgeous day today, so I took my Nikon D-70 along to photograph the route. I’ll post those photos later in the Trek tab. I’m glad I finished the walk when I did; it’s still quite sunny outside, but now the wind appears to be gusting in the 20-30 mph range (and possibly higher). ..bruce..
Shorter and slower today. Shorter because I walked to the local Hertz outlet to pick up a rental car for myself (Sandra left this morning, driving over to Utah to visit family). Slower because (a) the shoulder was muddy and slippery in places due to heavy rains last night, (b) I stopped at several points […]
A bit slower today (17:05/mile average) than on Saturday (16:05/mile average, my best to date). The weather started out clear, with a cool breeze, so I dressed more lightly (cut to elbow length the sleeves on one of my sweatshirts) and wore a hat. By the time I got back home, there was a solid […]
A friend of mine used to say that if I wasn’t playing in a ‘big enough game’ (referring to life itself, not World of Warcraft), that I’d screw things up in order to make things more interesting. I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately, since — in my own opinion — I’ve been mostly […]
Today’s Washington Post has an article about the resignation of Lawrence Small from his post as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The following paragraph (on page 2 of the story) caught my eye: Small has also received $1.15 million in housing allowances over a six-year period in return for agreeing to use his 6,500-square-foot home […]