Of course, I now need to verify that I’m posting this on the new website instead of the old one…yes, everything seems to be working just fine. If you encounter any broken links or other strangeness, please drop me a line. ..bruce w..
Not only am I trying out a few more WordPress themes, I will also be moving this blog to its own independent web site (it currently runs as a subdirectory under brucefwebster.com). I’ve already done the same thing to my other blog, and so hopefully have made all my mistakes in that process. ..bruce w..
Besides this blog and my other one, I also have two websites that deal with my professional life: a personal one (brucefwebster.com) and one for my business (bfwa.com). For the first one, I had been using a website design tool that has since been abandoned by its manufacturer (or rather by the firm that bought […]
“Young chimps outperformed university students in memory tests devised by Japanese scientists,” reports Helen Briggs of the BBC. From the ever-delightful and entertaining Jungle Trader. ..bruce..
My sweet wife Sandra is in Madison, Wisconsin, helping out our daughter Heather and her husband Michael with the birth (last Wednesday) of their third child, Ksenia [1] Rose Harris: Sandra called a little while ago to report the following overheard statement: No, you cannot sell my breast milk on eBay to buy a Playstation […]
My daughter Salem and I went to see “Beowulf” last night for her 22nd birthday. I sent an e-mail about it to an acquaintance, and he turned around and asked me if this meant that I thought (a) that “Beowulf” was a good movie and (b) that the motion capture technology used works. I spent […]
Word today from MarketWatch that the CEO of E-Trade is hitting the bricks as part of a $2.55 Billion deal with Citadel to pump enough money into the online broker to keep it running in face of losses connected to their Asset Backed Securities (ABS): NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The subprime crisis claimed a new […]
Stephen Green (a fellow Coloradan) over at VodkaPundit has been putting together his own video questions for tonight’s GOP/YouTube debate. They’re being posted over at PajamasMedia. My favorite so far: Would love to have seen some of these actually used in the debate. ..bruce..
Having lived in and around Washington DC for several years, I’m not a big fan of speed bumps, but…this is great: Hat tip to American Digest (one of the best-written blogs on the web). ..bruce..
Here comes the bubble, redux
Some months back I raised a cautionary flag over what I considered to be the excessively high valuation of VMWare (“Uh oh…Tech Crash 2.0?”). I got caught in the original (though largely unacknowledged) tech crash in the 1988-1991 time frame and so was able to see (and avoid) what is largely (if incorrectly) termed the […]
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