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Veterans Day – 2013
Here is our annual Veterans Day post listing the vets in our respective families: ============= Bruce Webster: CPL Darren Green, USMC (active) — served twice in Afghanistan; married and still active....
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Obamacare and the Unstopped Project
The most valuable IT consultant is someone who stands athwart a failing software project, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it....
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Obamacare and the Potemkin Website
[minor edits and additions, as always] Back on October 25th, Jeffrey Zients “landed” at the White House and took charge of the ailing Healthcare.gov website. He famously declared at the time: “By the...
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Obamacare and the Three Heads [UPDATED]
In a large-scale, well-managed IT project, there are three key roles that need to be filled by three different people who are each talented, qualified, tough-nosed, and given commensurate authority....
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Obamacare and the 90% solution
The first 90% of a software project takes 90% of the schedule. The remaining 10% takes the other 90% of the schedule. – The Metric Law of 90s We’ve had a lot of percentages thrown around about the...
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Post at Ace of Spades: why Obamacare is different
I have a new post up over at Ace of Spades about why Obamacare is different from the usual anti-GOP tropes put forward by the Democrats, and why they should be very, very afraid: 1) How many of you...
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Obamacare and the Bursting Dam
The media for the past three years has failed to do its job as independent and skeptical investigative journalists with regards to Obamacare in general and the essential technology infrastructure in...
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Obamacare and the Damp Squib
The national media, having been forced by the sheer bad performance of Healthcare.gov since its launch two months ago, is once again facing a critical decision: will it, in fact, report how...
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Obamacare and Healthcare.gov: How We Got Here
Stephen Covey was fond of saying, “You teach what you are.” Regardless of what platitudes you speak, all you really teach is what you actually live and practice. It should not be surprising, then,...
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Obamacare and the Fraudulent Turk
Decades ago, while home for the holidays from college, I attended a church-sponsored all-night New Year’s Eve party for college students. The organizers, whom I knew, had cozened me into providing...
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Obamacare and the Bifurcated Cusp
Decades ago, as a computer science undergrad at BYU, I took a graduate math class in catastrophe theory, taught by Prof. Helaman Rolfe Pratt Ferguson. This wasn’t because of particular skill on my...
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Obamacare and the Cold Equations
There is a famous 1954 short story by Tom Godwin called “The Cold Equations”.[1] In it, a young girl stows away on a rocket ship bringing plague vaccine to a colony world deep in space; her goal is to...
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Obamacare and the Widening Gyre
[rewritten, with some additional links] As many writers have been noting, particularly over the past week. the Obama Administration is getting more and more desperate in trying to make Obamacare...
View ArticleA Joyous Christmas to All
Wishing joy, peace and love for all of you on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and all the days that follow. ..bruce w..
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Obamacare and the Subversive Masses
It is clear that with the start of 2014, the Obama Administration — as many (including myself) predicted — wants to declare victory with Obamacare and go home. It is also clear to many of us — but...
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Obamacare and the Small Switcheroo
[minor edits and one added section] Ignore the nets for an afternoon and see what happens. The news I woke up to this morning (thanks to an early morning e-mail from John Fund at National Review) is...
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Up Earth Creek without a paddle [repost]
[I originally wrote this post back in 2007. As we hit the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, it still says everything I think about our past and current space efforts.] I am a child of the...
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Here’s some food for thought
Churchill at age 21. Consider the following about Winston Churchill (I’m currently reading “Churchill: A Life” by Martin Gilbert): He struggled in school for a variety of reasons, including lack of...
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In Memoriam: Ronald Paul Bucca (May 6, 1954 – September 11, 2001)
[This year, as with previous years, I am posting a memorial for Ronald Paul Bucca, the only FDNY Fire Marshall to die the course of duty -- that duty being helping to save people in the World Trade...
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In Memoriam: Robert David Peraza (May 26, 1971- September 11, 2001)
Robert (“Rob” or “Gringo”) David Peraza was 30 years old on September 11, 2001. He had earned both his undergraduate degree (1994) and his MBA (1996) from St. Bonaventure University, where he had...
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