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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.

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2008: Why I’m supporting Rudy

2008: Why I’m supporting Rudy

| January 29, 2007 | Reply

I have long felt that Rudy Giuliani is our best bet for the 44th President of the United States; quite frankly, I would vote for him regardless of what party ticket he ran upon. The reasons are quite simple: We’re at war and will be for the foreseeable future. Guiliani was nearly killed in the […]

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Why you keep children out of data centers

Why you keep children out of data centers

| January 23, 2007 | Reply

The Daily WTF is one of my daily reads. Subtitled “Curious perversions in information technology”, it allows readers to submit wretched source code examples, IT development horror stories, and similar cringe-inducing true-life accounts. (It’s fun to read the comments on source code postings; they bring to mind the old joke, “Q: How many programmers does […]

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Why FastCrawl matters

Why FastCrawl matters

| January 22, 2007 | 1 Reply

OK, so I praised a simple dungeon-crawl game that can be completed in 30 minutes. You may ask, why? Well, here’s this report (in the New York Times, no less) by Seth Schiesel about The Burning Crusade, the new expansion to the massively-multiplayer on-line role playing game (MMORPG), World of Warcraft: The big draw in […]

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And on the lighter side…

And on the lighter side…

| January 20, 2007 | Reply

…here’s a website devoted to ways to destroy the earth. As the web creator notes, it’s not quite as easy as you might think: All the explosives mankind has ever created, nuclear or non-, gathered together and detonated simultaneously, would make a significant crater and wreck the planet’s ecosystem, but barely scratch the surface of […]

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FastCrawl: short, fast, and fun

FastCrawl: short, fast, and fun

| January 20, 2007 | Reply

As some of you know, I was a computer game designer some 20+ years ago, and I maintain an interest in computer games. Lately, I’ve been buying most of my games from Manifesto Games, a computer game distributor with a business model geared towards inexpensive (and downloadable) games from independent game companies. Well, my latest […]

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Latest Denver snowfall wallpaper

Latest Denver snowfall wallpaper

| January 16, 2007 | Reply

[UPDATED 11/23/07] Note that I’ve now placed all my wallpaper photographs (including the ones below) in their own separate page on this blog (see the “Wallpaper” tab in the pages bar above). Here are some more pictures from last week’s snowstorm (we’ve had one per week since the week before Christmas), complete with wallpaper sizes. […]

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Why Mormons don’t need drugs

Why Mormons don’t need drugs

| January 15, 2007 | Reply

Because they build things like this. According to this video’s description, this was built at a “millionaire’s home in Utah.” Hat tip to reddit. ..bruce..

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Currently on the road…

Currently on the road…

| January 12, 2007 | Reply

…hope to be back home soon. And, apparently, there will be more snow waiting for me.  ..bruce.. (Dayton, Ohio)

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Meanwhile, back at the ranch…

Meanwhile, back at the ranch…

| January 6, 2007 | Reply

…we got another 4″ to 6″ of snow today: The third snowstorm in as many weeks swept into Colorado on Friday, further hampering efforts to restore power to rural homes and rescue thousands of cattle stranded by last week’s blizzard. And another storm is due in next Thursday/Friday — that will make four storms in […]

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More post-blizzard photos/wallpaper

More post-blizzard photos/wallpaper

| January 4, 2007 | Reply

[UPDATED 11/23/07] Note that I’ve now placed all my wallpaper photographs (including the ones below) on their own separate page on this blog (see the “Wallpaper” tab in the pages bar above). [UPDATED 01/06/07] Since a lot of people appear to be linking to this post as well, I’ve copied the “Winter Sunset” photo and […]

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