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: 3-9 July, 2017

Summary of this week:

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


Monday July 3, 2017

We have a million people use our website daily, but we aren't making any money. Tumblr and others.

Want to lower wages? Increase the number of qualified applicants. Start a charity, spend money, lobby everyone. Code.org.

Our President infuriates Cable News Network. CNN is insulted. Millions cheer. Violence? Frustration? Angst. Yes, Angst.

The culture at Google is changing, but slowly. What did everyone expect? Not everyone wants to work there.

Raspberry Pi founder: Brexit lowered manufacturing costs.

The government of California underestimates it solar power capacity and pays other states to take it. Tax waste.

A look at the past and present of FreeDOS. Still going, still updating, still being used.

Linux Kernel 4.12 is released.

Microsoft reorganizes international sales and laysoffs thousands.

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Tuesday July 4, 2017

Happy Birthday America.

Given the holiday, there isn't much news online today.

Facebook wins over us in court. They can track us because we have no expectation of privacy or something like that.

Facebook battles for us in court. They want to notify us if we have a search warrant on us. The confusion occurs when we remember that we are our own government.

Dave McClure, human predator, resigns from yet another big-name job.

A study of 1957 Wisconsin high school football players shows no brain injuries.

The new Tesla 3 models will be on the street late this month.

Young men, video games, work hours, and how more of one leads to less of another. And maybe more happiness.

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Wednesday July 5, 2017

Limited Internet viewing as today is a travel day.

Lisnr technology: communicating data at 19KHz. Yes, your dog will bark when you use it.

Why carry one of those fobs or apps when you can login by wearing a ring?

This is the Internet goof that won't die: software glitch sets prices at $123.47.

Intel backs out of the IoT market as it lays off people in that group.

FriendlyARM releases a little better single board computer than the Raspberry Pi. $25.

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Thursday July 6, 2017

Canada seems to understand immigration: make it easier for skilled persons to enter, not so easy for others.

Microsoft Workplace Analytics: your boss looks over your shoulder all day to see what you are doing in the office.

Nvidia announces a partnership with China's Baidu on AI and other self-driving technologies.

Tesla continues to learn how difficult it is to manufacture things. Sexual harassment in the factory.

Microsoft employees brace for big layoffs today.

The European cash register continues to ring as the EU is about to take another big $$$$ from Google.

Zuckerburg takes his I'm-not-running-for-president Presidential Campaign to Alaska and universal basic income.

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Friday July 7, 2017

No Internet viewing today as I had breakfast with some fine gentlemen instead.

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Saturday July 8, 2017

Amazon now has 85million Prime members in the US. That is up 35% from last year.

Real estate: Facebook to build a new campus community, think a college campus with no classes and lots of money.

Microsoft starts its back-to-school sale. Not that good this year.

Google's DeepMind is opening a new office in Canada, not the US. There go good jobs. Thanks government (not).

Google is funding a project that will write local news stories and replace lots of jobs for people.

One person's horrible experience as a programmer at GitHub. Goes to show that no single company owns stupid.

Poor sleep habits and dementia. There may be a link.

Joan Lee, married to Stan Lee for 69 years, dies at 95.

Yet another court rules that the public (us) can film public officials on public salaries performing public duties in public. Why was this in court?

ChinAfrica: here it comes. The biggest partnership in centuries.

Proof we are in the dog days of summer with no real news: the Internet explodes when the VP touches a NASA display.

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Sunday July 9, 2017

Those who expertly predict these things...expertly predict that Apple will be valued at $1Trillion (with a Tr) in 12 months.

The first Tesla model 3 comes out of the factory. This is supposed to be significant.

The Multics operating system comes back. This is the predecessor to Unix which was before ...

How local government regulations helped created the housing crisis in San Francisco.

The concept of "bending" time to get things done (like writing).

Good piece on "types" of writers: Type 1: Conceptual Innovators or Type 2: Experimental Innovators?

One freelance writer's life and schedule and learning how to not get sleep deprivation.

It is summer (not news), your family wants "to do summer." You're a writer 365 days a year. Now what?

As a writer, do you really believe you can be what you want to be? It is often abot believing.

"Learn To Love Rejection and You’ll Never Be Out of Work" Pretty good advice.

How one writer "binge-writes" instead of writing at least some everyday. Try a lot of different things and notice what works for you.

Writers who have written books share their lessons. We are paying the tuition, we might as well receive the education.

Do and Don't during your one hour of writing. I find I write better in half-hour sprints.

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