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: June 22-28, 2015

Summary of this week:

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

Monday June 22, 2015

This should be common practice, not big news: Samsung will fix a security hole on 600million phones.

The battles continue in the sharing economy of employees, freelancers, dependent contractors, and of course MONEY.

Taylor Swift, Apple's streaming music, and of course M O N E Y.

The world of cyber warfare.

A recent study shows that one in three data center servers does nothing but use electricity.

Online journalism sites usually fail because the journalists don't know how to run a business.

And more gory detail about the OPM hack. OPM makes the three stooges look like Rhodes scholars.

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Tuesday June 23, 2015

Oracle provides more cloud computing and mentions Amazon specifically as a competitor.

Will Apple become a bank? It certainly has the cash reserves, but also the technology.

Google enters the journalism world with News Lab.

An EU court is ordering Google to change how it provides free information to the public. No, I didn't make it up. Yes, it is really silly. Yes, it is legal.

Linux 4.1 kernel is released.

Smart Vision Labs: they have a portable vision testing system that could change everything for a billion people.

There is a huge, untapped market in Southeast Asia for e-commerce.

Facebook continues to advance its face-recognition technology.

Here comes a real hoverbike. Just a few years away.

Microsoft tries to clarify who gets a free copy of Windows 10.

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Wednesday June 24, 2015

No Internet viewing as I was travelling all day.

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Thursday June 25, 2015

Government surveillance programs are chasing software companies out of the UK.

This is an excellent post containing links to a complete education in Big Data.

A list of software engineering blogs from many, many companies.

What to do with the infrastructure of those old pay phone booths: make them WiFi hotspots.

Virtual mobility for the disabled via mind-controlled telepresence systems.

Recycling has become a money-losing business.

All the computers on smarter cars are easy to hack. Too bad they didn't think of security.

Microsoft Office is finally available free for Android phones.

Polaroid updates its little cube camera to use your smartphone as the viewfinder and controller.

Google updates its Chromebox for meetings.

Lenovo introduces its own PC on a stick with HDMI interface for $130.

Google climbs El Capitan with its cameras. Must see video.

DropBox has 400million users. The definition of success has changed.

Google build a data center in Alabama on the site of an old coal plant.

Now we have an infrared camera attachment for the smartphone—only $250.

Quit your job, be a freelance writer—don't forget some basic office tools and techniques.

Our President has fast-track negotiating authority: will H-1B visas explode and US jobs dive?

And the OPM hack story gets worse. The Director broke the law, but don't expect any arrests soon or ever.

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Friday June 26, 2015

I found an older Alistair Cockburn article on risk management.

Finally, a practical Apple Watch strap that hold extra battery power.

Google's self-driving cars are puttering about in Silicon Valley—25mph zones only so far.

And all the reports that two self-driving cars almost collided are F A L S E.

Civil War games are being pulled because they have historically accurate battle flags. Comment is unnecessary.

Apple restates that it will not ban educational and historical Civil War games.

Here is a Raspberry Pi based camera kit so kids can photo wildlife.

Silicon Valley vs Wall Street: who has the most money and talent?

Now we have a robotic brick layer that works 24 hours/day and builds a house in two days. And it can spell UNEMPLOYMENT.

Hillary Clinton did not give the Department of State all her Libya-related emails. One false negative begats questions.

11 programming languages that lead to jobs.

The streaming service HBO NOW has been a big success.

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Saturday June 27, 2015

Disney to ban selfie sticks at all parks.

The US Supreme Court rules that “Under the Constitution, same-sex couples seek in marriage the same legal treatment as opposite-sex couples, and it would disparage their choices and diminish their personhood to deny them this right...” Let the games begin.

Intuit lays off 399 employees.

A post about the tech industry bubble. Yes, there is one.

A review of phone charging battery packs.

Confederate flags our out of apps, but Nazis are still in. Sometimes it takes more time and thought to "be right" and not be a hypocrite.

In a rush to use encryption, most companies are not training people who to implement it correctly.

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Sunday June 28, 2015

"No one is born a writer. You must become a writer. In fact, you never cease to become, because you never stop learning how to write. Even now, I am becoming a writer. And so are you."

Apple has a highly successful program for teaching high school students its Swift programming language.

Thoughts on millennials and the technology that enables almost all of us today. Previously, only 1% had the abilities that we all do now.

Thoughts on robot writers; more unemployment coming.

"few areas have been as hopeful and as disappointing as innovation in education." Ditto.

Writing groups can be good and they can be horrible.

In order to write a book, you have to write (no duh). You probably have to write everyday.

Some tips on when to quit editing and call it finished (for now).

What one writer learned writing her first novel.

Writers—because of that nagging habit of writing words on paper—often have a different outlook on life.

A nice long list of blog post ideas for writers.

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