Items I happen to view each day. Science, Technology, Management, Culture, and Writing

    This is my day book for this week. It is a log of things I see on the Internet.

This week: 5-11 October, 2026

Summary of this week:

• The Russians are still in Ukraine
• xxx
• xxx
• xxx

Monday 5 October 2026

Technology has jumped a few steps up the ladder. Here is the story of one person who has ridden the jumps.

Here is a thought about the great pyramids in Egypt: they were built so that they record information about the earth and mathematics. Measure this and that and you have information that is useful elsewhere.

The ne'er-do-wells find yet another way to do what they do.

Token for the chattering bots are the new money. In China, the black market flourishes.

Some folks at Anthropic are meeting with some folks called religious leaders. Some folks like this trend. Others scoff. I would need to see the details and meet the nice folks involved.

Meanwhile at Anthropic, the company matches charitable gifts with stock giveaways. Nice for charities but not nice for future shareholders.

Quoting the headline from Wired: Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family

Here's a paraphrase: In an X reply, Elon Musk says that SpaceX will rename its AI unit SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI (super intelligence).

Quoting: Car thefts in San Francisco are down almost 59% for the first eight months of 2026. License-plate reading systems reduce car thefts. We've decided that such systems are bad. Who is we? Why did we decide that?

Some of us try to keep AM radios in vehicles. Forget the entertainment value. These things are basic emergency communications. They work.

This writer loves doing ALL THE WORK himself. No employees. No loss of control. No sleep... oh wait, I tossed in that last one.

A classic review of a classic book: The Psychology of Computer Programming. I had the good fortune of knowing Jerry Weinberg.

Write 670 words of fiction each day (type 30 words a minute, that is about 25 minutes of writing). That isn't much as it is little more than a page a day. At that pace, however, a writer writes four novels a year. WHAT???!!!??? Yes. Those are 60,000-word novels.

If you put your hands to the keyboard, or even dictate your stories, you will find that you can write much faster than you can publish your own work.

How C.S. Lewis spent every day as a writer.

One person's reflection on 20 years of blogging. We are at that point in computing history where the blog is 20 years old plus or minus a few. My blogs will hit that mark in a couple of years.

Are we living in the death of reading?

Seth Godin calls this a handoff doc. I have worked jobs that used these under different names. Could a chattering bot do this for me?

Tuesday 6 October 2026

Wednesday 7 October 2026

Thursday 8 October 2026

Friday 9 October 2026

Saturday 10 October 2026

Sunday 11 October 2026