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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.
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This
week: February 1-7, 2010
Summary of this week:
- The New Orleans Saints win the championship of the NFL
Monday - Tuesday
- Wednesday - Thursday - Friday
- Saturday - Sunday
Monday February 8, 2010
The New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl last night.
Forty-something years of trying finally pays. Now, if we could just
keep the commentators from saying that New Orleans is rising from the
ashes...it was (almost) hit by a hurricane not a fire.
Here are comments on the world-famous Super Bowl commercials. Budwieser sure ran a lot of them.
Vizio did have an ad about HD TVs that are connected to the Internet. Is that the Internet appliance that the Apple iPad is hoping to be?
Google ran their ad during the Super Bowl.
I liked it. It showed that life of just plain folks is intertwined with
the Internet and with Google so much that we forget about it. And this is one Google ad you won't see on TV.
Well known tech ads from prior Super Bowls. Great to remember.
The IBM Power7 processor - eight cores on the chip with each core running four threads.
This survey concludes that people won't be buying iPads.
And maybe the Chevy Volt will actually be manufactured and sold.
White walls, a black and white photo, and some lights - surprising how good it could look.
I like this post. A person has analyzed 200 million Facebook pages. He creates a map of America based on the connections people have and the types of web pages they link.
The solar power industry could take off in America this year
- on the backs of American taxpayers. I don't recall anyone asking me
if I wanted my tax dollars spent on an ineffective and inefficient
source of electricity.
A license to use the Internet? Issued by the government?
There are so many things wrong with this that I am not sure where to
begin. Let's start with the driver's license. A state issues a driver's
license to someone unless the state can prove that the person cannot
drive (bad eye sight, ignorance of driving culture, etc.). The driver's
license cannot track where you are driving, how you drive, who rides
with you while you drive, what you say while you drive, and so on.
Everything I do on the Internet could be recorded as the technology is
available. All that is needed is the (ill)will to do it. Not than
anyone would abuse that information.
For example, the Iranian government is shutting down the Internet ahead of planned protests.
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Tuesday February 9,
2010
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Wednesday February 10, 2010
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Thursday February 11, 2010
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Saturday February 13,
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Sunday February 14,
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