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 27-May 3, 2015
Summary of this week:
- People have been using the Apple Watch for three days now
- Apple's quarterly report shows more incredible numbers
- Macs now generate more money than iPads
- Uber starts food delivery in Chicago and New York City
- Tesla announces its home energy systems
- Iran already cheating on unsigned nuclear treaty
Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Saturday
- Sunday
Monday April 27, 2015
One writer's experience with one week of the new MacBook. If you use older USB ports and card slots, you are in trouble.
Now that Silicon Valley has all the money, will it grow up?
The goal of wireless charging via ultrasound at uBeam. Safe?
The dream or reality of the location independent professional.
Three days with the Apple Watch. It is mostly a nice watch.
As if they haven't sold enough of them yet, Apple releases three commercials for their watch.
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Tuesday April 28, 2015
Lenovo moves into the Chromebox market.
Best Buy adopts Apple Pay.
In Nepal, now over 4,000 dead from the earthquake.
Just to my north, there are riots in Baltimore.
If you burn down the city, all you have is a burned down city. One
person died at the hands of the police and the city burns. Yes, I put
this note next to the one of 4,000 dead in Nepal for a reason. What the
Baltimore police did was horrible, but, let's have some perspective.
Facebook adds video to Messenger.
The numbers from Apple's quarterly report are off all the charts. The definition of success has changed.
Apple has more good financial news. Sales of Mac and iPhone grow while iPad shrinks.
Apple made $13.6billion p r o f i t in the last quarter.
Apple sold 61million phones in the last quarter.
Apple has almost $200billion in cash, in the bank, in the checking account.
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Wednesday April 29, 2015
Apple now requires medical research app writers to obtain ethics board approval. The system fights back.
Someone publishes how to pick a Master combination lock. Gym lockers and bicycles are no longer safe.
Forward to the past. Nepal relief workers turn to ham radio. Google needs to put those balloons up quickly.
Thoughts on wearing your personal uniform (like Monk and Steve Jobs).
Europe will have all cars equipped with emergency calling in 2018.
American Airlines uses iPads in the cockpit. What could possible go wrong? Yes, it did happen.
Seinfeld comes to Hulu.
Uber brings its food delivery to Chicago and New York City.
Twitter's financial report disappointed many leading to 18% drop in its stock price.
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Thursday April 30, 2015
No Internet viewing today.
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Friday May 1, 2015
Tesla moves into home solar power battery systems. More on the story here.
The yurt (Mongolian tent) comes to America.
It appears that Iran is already cheating on the as yet to be signed nuclear treaty.
LinkedIn beat expectations, but its stock price dropped 20%.
The FBI is slammed on Capitol Hill regarding encryption.
OpenBSD 5.7 is released.
Travel a lot? Tired of cleaning and packing clothing? There's an app for that—Dufl.
Microsoft supplies new SDKs so Android and iOS apps can run on Windows 10. Brilliant move.
Microsoft also has free versions of Windows 10 for Arduino and the Raspberry Pi 2. Brilliant move.
Microsoft shows that it is more apt to take technical and financial risks.
A look inside Microsoft HoloLens.
“just follow the damn Constitution” enough said.
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Saturday May 2, 2015
The world changes a little at a time. UK will one day allow Internet access and Google searches during school exams. It is no longer about repeating facts, but asking the right questions.
Man prints a wall-sized map of the world with fine details.
NASA tests an odd UAV.
Vermont Senator runs for President and against the H-1B visa program.
Microsoft aims for 1billion devices running Windows 10.
Yet another study indicates the radical changes that self-driving cars may bring.
Cities in a hundred years will be drastically different than today. Why
not? Cities today are drastically different than they were a hundred
years ago.
Will Apple innovate the iPad again this year or will tablets just go away?
Government to the rescue: $20million to buy police body cameras as a "pilot."
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Sunday May 3, 2015
The empire strikes back: programmer convicted of stealing code from employer.
Arguments against the C programming language. Efficient, but too prone to security holes?
One person's experience with the Apple Watch for a week. "It's a watch."
Where do you store your photos online? Will your choice still be here in two years?
"Instant Articles" coming to Facebook this month. The idea is simple—keep you in Facebook all the time.
Tips on how to continue writing while you are travelling.
Tips on memoir writing so as not to cause your relatives to hate you.
Things that persistent writers do.
Warmup tips for writers; writing in private where no one will read anything you write.
More news on content marketing as an avenue for writing income.
Tips for things to do while the writer waits and waits and waits.
Tips on sitting in public and listening to the conversations of other people.
Working from home, social anxiety, and what to do if you are 99% introverted.
Thoughts on rewriting something you wrote much earlier.
A day-by-day procedure for writing one short story every week. You can't write 52 bad stories in a row.
A list of writing exercises.
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