Dwayne Phillips ' Day Book
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I happen to view each day. Science, Techonology, Management, Culture,
and of course Writing
This is my day book for this week. I have modeled this after science
fiction and computer writer Jerry Pournelle's view, or as he calls it,
his Day Book.
I encourage you to see Jerry
Pournelle's site
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This
week: August 30-September 5, 2010
Summary of this week:
- NASA puts historic photos on Flickr.
- HP in the news
- RFID tags for preschoolers
Monday - Tuesday
- Wednesday - Thursday - Friday
- Saturday - Sunday
Monday August 30,
2010
I drive
around the beltway, no Internet viewing today.
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Tuesday August 31,
2010
NASA
has put dozens of historic photos on Flickr for everyone to see and use.
Canon's
newest, largest CMOS sensor (optical). One application is low-light
imaging - still and video.
A
new undersea fibre optic cable is connected to West Africa.
Here
is Lockheed Martin's unmanned helicopter. It is the winner of
an Army competition for unmanned, heavy-lift helicopters.
New
video from inside the Titanic.
A
really small portable computer from ASUS. But it has a 12" screen.
It seems that someone has rebuilt the iBook G4 that I used for four
years during the 2000's.
The
beautiful office was once a garage. Great stuff.
I
think that I like this idea - replace prisons with restrictions on the
outside. Technology allows this to work now. It costs less
and has to be more effective than our current penal system.
The
next version of the Oxford English Dictionary may be be available
online only. Online subscriptions are dwarfing hardback sales.
HP
finally outbids Dell for 3PAR.
The
InterAcademy Council has recommended fundamental changes to the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Long acronyms. In essence, one science body has told the climate
researchers that they need to pay more attention to climate research
and less to politics and funding. I doubt the change will occur as this
is quite lucrative. Jerry Pournelle has been doing extensive research
into the the research and has learned that many fundamental questions
are not answered and may not be answerable by those who claim to kow
the temperature of the entire earth to a tenth of a degree 300 years
ago and things like that. Interesting stuff that we are spending
billions of dollars on.
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Wednesday
September 1, 2010
My crazy work week continues. Not much viewing today, but some.
Wireless TV from HP. An odd supplier of such, but why not.
And HP also announces it really small portable computer with the new dual-core Atom processor.
Now this is a neat home project - a guy made a 1/10th scale Cray 1 Supercomputer. It is actually a running computer.
The Navy has had a bad time with its IT contract. First with EDS and now with HP.
Archos has five new tablet computers.
This California school is going to put RFID tags on pre-schoolers. I guess this means something. I don't like it.
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Thursday September
2, 2010
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Friday September 3,
2010
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Saturday September
4,
2010
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Sunday September 5,
2010
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