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.
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This
week: September 5-11, 2016
Summary of this week:
- The unofficial end of summer with Labor Day in the US
- Intel buys Movidius—vision processor maker
- ITT Technical Institute closes after 50 years
- Apple shows the iPhone7 and Watch series 2
- Dell cuts 3,000 jobs
- Wells Fargo fires 5,300 fraudulent employees
Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Saturday
- Sunday
Monday September 5, 2016
Today is Labor Day in the US—the unofficial end of summer.
Tests for personality and "job fit" should be banned. Just another set of code words for discrimination.
Will Amazon kill its long-time partners UPS and FedEx?
What I need (maybe): a retrofit kit to make my old van self driving.
Half the time Americans spend online is now via smartphone apps. Is the old Internet dead?
Strong rumors: iOS 10 to be released next week for the iPhones. Forget how to use the iPhone, learn again.
Amazon builds a wall of hay around its English drone testing site.
last.fm is hacked, and 43million passwords are released.
Hackers are reactivating suspended Twitter accounts. Who runs Twitter?
An old, but still excellent, guide to performance appraisals.
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Tuesday September 6, 2016
Start the day with a bizarre story of bizarre ants living in a Soviet nuclear weapons storage bunker.
Time minus one-day predictions of Apple's big even tomorrow.
USB type C to HDMI without most of the expense and bulk.
Just about everybody outside our government joins Microsoft's suit against our government and gag orders.
54-year-old former Apple engineer rejected as Genius Bar worker. Too old. Over-qualified.
Rambler.ru is hacked, and 100million passwords are stolen.
Google activates another undersea cable between Taiwan and Japan.
Intel buys Movidius and moves into the world of vision processors for drones.
Excellent example of progressive government ruining the envirnment: zika spray kills 2.5million bees.
A quiet industry: autonomous ships that perform ocean research better and cheaper than manned vessels.
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Wednesday September 7, 2016
Apple will have a big event today. Here comes the next iPhone.
Microsoft failed at buying Skype, so now it is trying to build a competitor.
Amazon updates it Fire TV products.
Solving another problem that only exist for 1%, Amazon has restuarant delivery in London.
A possible link among car fumes, iron, and dementia.
ITT Technical Institute closes after 50 years; thousands of persons lose their jobs. This is because our government cut off ITT's students from Federal student loans.
Microsoft's UK data center region is now online.
Freedom
of speech remains dead in Cuba. Sure haven't seen any movement there
since our President decided to be the Castro's buddy.
Frustrations of building a hyperloop in California. This is normal for building anything in California.
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Thursday September 8, 2016
Apple showed the iPhone 7; all the hardware is better, except maybe the sure-to-lose wireless earbuds.
This is one link to many stories about the event. A new Watch series
was shown as well as updates to iPads. No new computers of the regular
variety.
Instagram already has new features specifically for the iPhone 7 new camera.
Why did Apple remove the headphone jack? Simple. It was too big.
Intel spins off McAfee and gets $3billion.
The ugly details of the stupid mistakes of how OPM was hacked and 21million personnel files stolen.
Google's Jigsaw has developed a tool to redirect potential terrorist recruits.
This is just cool. Put your Raspberry Pi into a miniature recreation of an old Apple computer.
Comma Chameleon: does nothing but allow you to edit csv files. Function only, not fluff.
Raspberry
Pi has shipped 10million units. These guys should get a Nobel Prize for
the most successful education project in history.
If you didn't notice, Apple walked away from the luxury jewelry (watch) market.
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Friday September 9, 2016
"Tech"
companies solve another problem that doesn't exist: Google will deliver
Chipotle burritos to Va Tech students via drone on a one-month trial.
Nvidia releases the GeForce Experience 3.0.
Our US government now has a Chief Information Security Officer. We are safe from....er, uh, something.
Wells Fargo employees created a million fake accounts and stole a lot of money. 5300 of them caught and fired.
IBM updates its Power8 processors with hopes of battling Intel in the server business.
After an explosion on pad, SpaceX may be ground for a year.
Now that Dell and EMC have merged, 3,000 persons are laid off.
And now we start the rumors for Microsoft's October hardware event.
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Saturday September 10, 2016
Nest adds Sightline feature to its web cam so you can quickly see important events remotely.
Apple may be quietly backing out of the self-driving car business.
ooops, Facebook has become a part of the news media. I don't think it wanted to fall into that.
Mercedes-Benz Vans shows a concept of drone delivery for the last congested road mile.
It seems that Amazon will open 100 pop-up stores in US malls next year.
Microsoft introduces "guest access" to Office 365. You include outsiders in your collaborative efforts.
Marissa Mayer to get $44million if fired. Nice job if you can get it.
Tech skills that will earn you more money. (ha ha ha) Know someone who will hire you.
A Volkswagon engineer sort of pleads guilty to using a defeat device to fool the EPA. No one is pounding the EPA for being so easily fooled.
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Sunday September 11, 2016
PCs and game consoles continue their drift towards one another.
gab.ai: a social network with free speech. Imagine such a thing in 21st-century America.
The coming privacy wars. Most don't care, but a few do. And those few are passionate.
GitHub grows out of the "bossless" organization. They need a little bit more organization.
A good post showing the non-existence of writer's block.
Doing small things that sum to large things as a writer.
Are you a starving fiction writer? Here are some non-fiction ways to add income.
Thoughts on the artist date and the digital sabbatical.
A collection of tools for writers including how to show and not tell.
Revising a long piece is a bit easier if you are organized.
How to use white space on a page or screen to help the reader enjoy your words.
Some starts for freelance writers. I don't recomend all of these. It is tough.
Is writing work? Yes, unless it is play. Sometimes I play with my granddaughter as we write little stories from each other.
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