Dwayne Phillips ' Day Book

Items 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 and subscribe to his services.

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This week: June 29-July 5, 2015

Summary of this week:

Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday - Sunday

Monday June 29, 2015

A TED talk from Google on how their cars see the world. The biggest challenge is the humans who violate all the traffic laws.

SpaceX resupply mission explodes right after launch. These guys are killing the idea of commercial space flight.

Forget UPS and FedEx; Uber and Lyft will deliver our packages.

Forget the sharing economy; we are in the peer-to-peer economy.

The Wimbledon tennis tournament starts this week. A glorious fortnight.

More advances in printing electronics onto cloth.

Qualcomm researchers increases fiber optic data capacity by 20 times. That is a revolution, not an evolution.

The BBC is publishing links to articles that Google is deleting per the Right to be Forgotten.

American companies go to China and help the government rule its subjects. All for a buck.

Here is a new one for me: the Whole 30 diet. 30 days of natural foods.

Facebook continues to exclude black and hispanics in its workforce.

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Tuesday June 30, 2015

Notes from the Rand Paul Presidential hackathon—an interesting group of people.

A security researcher leaves Google to work in government. Let's see how long that lasts.

More predictions of life with driverless cars—get ready for unemployment to explode.

TEMPEST considerations return to computing. Same old technology, same old RF emanations.

iOS 8.4 and Apple Music coming today. Be ready for long waits.

Netflix to have 70million subscribers by the end of the year. The definition of success has changed.

French arrest two Uber managers; the French don't take this lightly.

Bill Gates invests $2billion in renewable energy sources.

The new groupthink—the exaggerated use of teams and teamwork.

Google updates its Classroom service for education.

Livecoding.tv—watch programmers work in real time. I guess some programmers don't mind, and neither do their employers.

GitHub now holds the vast majority of the world's open-source software. What if the disks crashed or...

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Wednesday July 1, 2015

Some reviewers already love Apple Music.

The cheapest computer in the store hits another low: Acer Chromebook $110.

The government of California is REALLY telling persons how to raise their kids now.

It is not a good thing to be called "the new Internet Explorer," and Safari gets that title.

One of our secret courts gave our government permission to continue spying on us. No, you can't make this up. This isn't hypocrisy, it is government.

Now that same-sex marriage is legal, same-sex couples have to live with all the problems the rest of us have.

Starting a business? Build it to serve the 99%.

The short-sightedness of coddling children and employees. We all know this, but...

Acer pushes the computer monitor market with a 34" curved display.

Someone is physically attacking data cables in the San Francisco area. This is good, old-fashioned physical sabotage.

Seth Godin on the folly of political candidates and traditional advertising. It is a waste of a lot of money.

Medium goes to a no-password scheme for logging in.

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Thursday July 2, 2015

HP reveals the details on how it will become two companies.

I never understood the office water cooler thing as I never worked anywhere that had a water cooler. We, however, always had a coffee pot. Anyways, for freelancers, the gathering place is the Internet.

At least one Silicon Valley startup is using full-time employees vice a bunch of sharing economy freelancers.

Elon  Musk donates $10million to research to protect us from artificial intelligence. Just hire our government to work on AI.

Remember this company—DigitalOcean—as it one day may push Amazon Web Services in the cloud market.

The LTE on the next iPhone 6s will be twice as fast as the current 6.

ooops, people are already finding big security problems in Windows 10.

This is a great post on good and bad use of big data.

Here is another reason to leave Chicago. Chicago enacts 9% tax on cloud services including Netflix.

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Friday July 3, 2015

The government of China wants tech companies to give them everything on everyone. Proceed with caution.

Reddit has temporarily closed AMA and other things. Note, the word "temporary" is a prediction, and most of us are bad at predictions.

The Sphericam: a 360-degree VR video camera. Must see the photo at the top of the article.

Bubble wrap is reinvetned so that it consumes far less space in shipping. Long live iBubble or something.

A robot kills a man at a VW factory in Germany. Of course the man was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

A look at the IBM "bunker" at Wimbledon.

North America is out of IPv4 addresses.

Vinyl records continue a comeback in the marketplace with sales up 38% last year.

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Saturday July 4, 2015

Coming real soon now—the next Google Glass. It will be for business, not pleasure. At last, someone understands the value of augmented reality.

Somehow, a 5-4 Supreme Court decision means there is no longer free speech on the topic. This is not good for America.

Reddit is in a state of almost confusion. I couldn't read the Technology sub-Reddit yesterday, but can today.

Coming to 22 Massachusetts towns, their own fiber-optic broadband service.

The Solar Impulse 2 completes its five-day trip from Japan to Hawaii.

Has the computer in the classroom merely become another instrument of the big dysfunctional system?

Firefox 39 is released.

The AM radio has become the Internet, or is it the other way around?

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Sunday July 5, 2015

Yet more explanations and apologies from Reddit over this week's confusing confusion.

Britain is trying to ban encryption. This just won't work, and lots of money will be wasted.

A silly video with some good tips for summer cookouts. Hey, yesterday was the 4th of July, so...

More outdoor cooking silliness in an over-engineered, semi-autonomous cooker from Harvard of all places.

If nothing else, this is a clever package for a Raspberry Pi—must see the photo.

A look at WiFi extenders for those whose homes are built stronger than the rest of ours.

Some writing productivity tips. JUST WRITE.

Yet another list of blog post ideas if you run out of them.

The value of reading to the human mind.

Excellent old rant on writing from Charles Bukowski. Yes, people had rants long before the Internet.

How one writer started writing a book. It wasn't pretty.

Here is a good writing exercise: READ one short story a day every day.

10 Fast Fingers: a site that helps you improve your typing speed. This is an important and little-emphasized writing skill.

Tools for writers. This is a good list.

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