Bruce Henderson is a former Marine who focuses custom data mining and visualization technologies on the economy and other disasters.
Back on March 5th of 2008 and February 10th, I pointed out that we were still missing sunspots. In fact in the weeks since then we have seen a few small sunspots appear, some that were judged to be part of the new cycle, and some part of the old cycle. This was quickly argued […]
Sadly we now have photographic evidence what lies at the end of the rainbow….. Yes, it’s a portal-pottie. You are invited to dig for the pot of gold within.
I have written before about how our current primary cycle is netting us the weakest / least electable candidates possible. In fact I had advocated that we consider alternate forms of selecting candidates. Now from the world of pro wrestling, this gem! I have to marvel at how they got the ears to stay on, […]
It’s April 21st, and that means it’s the birthday of the one and only Bruce Webster! Please join me in wishing him a wonderful an happy birthday.
Bloomberg business news brings us word of General Electric’s fall in profits and reduction in forecast: April 11 (Bloomberg) — General Electric Co. dropped the most since the 1987 stock market crash after reporting an unexpected decline in profit just a month after Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt assured investors 2008 earnings would be met. […]
A blast from the past, circa 1992. The place is San Diego, the company is Pages Software. Back then the internet was not yet invented, but we has usenet news groups. The following appeared Jan 17, 1992 in comp.sys.next.misc Just how many Bruce’s are there at Pages? Well, I have recently gotten a couple of […]
Click on image for greater detail Word via io9 that Purdue has put together a map of the US showing their guess of CO2 emission density. They call the System “Vulcan” and it’s interesting because there is no sensor grid for CO2. Instead Vulcan derives a guess on CO2 density from local air pollution data […]
Evil Bruce has been missing from this site for a few weeks, and I apologize for that. Readers of this site know that my primary focus is using new software tools to solve big, ugly business problems. Fortunately for my team the number of problems that are big and ugly seem to be expanding rapidly. […]
Word from Bloomberg that Ford is likely to sell its Jaguar and Land Rover units to India’s Tata motor company: Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) — Ford Motor Co. selected Tata Motors Ltd. as the preferred bidder for Jaguar and Land Rover, putting India’s largest truckmaker in a position to take over two iconic British luxury auto […]
In 2008 – It’s Tough To Be A Republican
For the past several months all eyes have been focused on the ongoing mess that is the remains of the Democratic primary. The untold and emerging story is the impending beating that the Republicans are likely to take in November. In interest of full disclosure I consider myself a conservative and tend to vote Republican […]
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