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.
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This
week: April 20-26, 2015
Summary of this week:
- Norway to be the first to turn off FM radio
- Apple Pay continues to grow
- Google spends more and more $ on lobbying
- Jewelry stores have the Apple Watch in stock
- Google announces its nationwide wireless service
- Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger is off
- Apple Watch is on the streets (and in the swimming pools)
Monday
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- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Saturday
- Sunday
Monday April 20, 2015
Norway will be the first to turn off FM radio and replace it with Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) standard.
Thoughts on getting the Internet of Things right—this time.
Technology seems to reviving the idea of doctors making housecalls. Will wonders never cease?
Sony has a new smartphone. Yawn.
HBO doesn't like bars showing Game of Thrones. Be careful when you block your own customers from your product.
SnapChat is buying real estate in Venice, Ca.
It appears that the markup on the Apple Watch is the highest of any Apple product—ever. Big $$$.
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Tuesday April 21, 2015
More on how tech is changing so fast that jobs are disappearing. Sorry, it is bad news.
More thoughts on Apple's new MacBook and the philosophy of what in the world we do with laptop computers anyway.
We can now download our complete Google search history.
George Lucas is spending $200million of his own to build affordable housing. Good for him. Hey rich people, stop all the hollering and lobbying and just do something.
Car makers are claiming copyright violation when people repair their cars.
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Wednesday April 22, 2015
More financial institutions are adopting Apple Pay.
Google announce several updates for Google for Education's Classroom.
The rumors grow stronger for a Google nationwide wireless network.
Ubuntu 15.04 is released.
Our Secretary of Homeland Security expresses our governments disdain of citizen encryption.
CyberPower introduces the ultimate home, gaming PC.
Perhaps international travel and part-time work is more important than a college degree.
HP updates its back-to-school laptops and tablets with more technology and more colors.
Google breaks its own record for money spent on lobbying.
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Thursday April 23, 2015
It appears that jewelry stores around the world already have the Apple Watch in stock.
Notes on planning for your death and how to let family know all your accounts, names, passwords, etc.
Google's wireless service is here. It is a little different, but different enough? Another story here.
This qoute says it all about Silicon Valley's recent love affair with big beards, "The hipster lumbersexual has merged with the tech elite, creating the world’s wealthiest cavemen."
The annotated autobiography of Laura Ingalls Wilder is out and hard to buy.
What astonishes me is that commenters highlight how her fiction books
don't exactly follow her real life. Really? Is that why the books are
called "fiction?" Wow!
Every now and then there are stories in the news that are really stupid. For example...
Hubble sees something in nature that scientists cannot explain.
Cheaper gasoline causes people to buy larger cars.
GCC 5.1 is released.
Ars Technica reviews Intel's Compute Stick.
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Friday April 24, 2015
No Internet viewing today.
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Saturday April 25, 2015
The great Time Warner Cable-Comcast merger falls apart at the FCC.
Artificial intelligence and health care.
We delved into this in the 1980s, but doctors backed off because they
were afraid of being sued. AI systems were correct more often than
doctors, but they had a known rate of error. Doctors would be sued if
they employed a system that was acknowledge to be incorrect. Perhaps
today, the world is ready of computer systems that are still incorrect
but better.
More bad news on the terrible insecure voting machines used in Virginia.
The profitability of Amazon Web Services pushes Amazon's stock up.
Good for Amazon—paying tuition for warehouse workers to take just about any kind of course.
Age discrimination lawsuit at Google shows average employee is 29!
In case you haven't noticed, the Apple Watch is now on the shelves.
Microsoft and Google battle for 2nd place.
The definition of success has changed: 100million downloads of MS Office on iOS and Android.
The world is safe: Netflix starts carrying The X Files.
Strong rumor that the next version of Google Glass is almost here.
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Sunday April 26, 2015
Here come the tutorials on how to use your Apple Watch.
The home computer is not dead as Apple's Mac gains in sales.
Seattle pushes forward in the tech business world.
A
look at the big offices of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and
Amazon. The big office is the first step down into bureaucracy.
Thoughts on replacing the "To Do List" with "daily intentions." Makes sense.
The role of the Internet in recovery after the Nepal earthquake.
The ground destroys its own infrastructure. If Google balloons and
Facebook drones were overhead, there would be communications. Those
goofy projects have a real place in the world.
Google opens its Person Finder in Nepal to help connect the lost with the searchers.
How deadlines help some writers accomplish more in less time.
Writing and failure: they often go together.
What "trying really hard" may mean to writers. It means actually doing many things that presently only occupy your worries.
If you have a paper notebook journal, you don't have to worry about Google or someone being hacked.
Excellent advice for those who want to be freelance writers and such: don't quit your day job.
Lists of lists of paying writing jobs.
One thing about writers—we can affect the world everyday.
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