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: September 21-27, 2015

Summary of this week:

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

Monday September 21, 2015

Excellent post on resources for makers—those who make things out of parts.

The pseudoscience of polygraphy marches on at the FBI and other places.

A list of last night's Emmy Award winners. What happened to CBS NBC ABC???

Japan's parliament votes to allows its military to venture out of its borders, first time since WWII.

For the first time, hundreds of apps on Apple's store are infected with malware.

An effort to re-connect the Pentagon with Silicon Valley. Yes, they were once quite close. Then some stupid entered Washington D.C., and the rest is...well, we get $1billion web sites that don't work.

Kickstarter reincorporates as a pubilc benefit corporation.

People trying to study the affect of tablet computers on small children.

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Tuesday September 22, 2015

Robert Simon, who developed a place called Reston, dies at 101.

Coming from LG, a double-sided display screen that we can roll up into a tube. Science fiction comes to reality.

The Belgian government has accused Facebook of spying on its citizens. Let's see, a rich American company in a European court being charged by a European government. I wonder how this will end (not).

Apple has already sold its complete stock of new iPhones, which are not available until next week.

Computer camps for girls only are now opening. Discriminating by gender to end discriminating by gender is full of problems.

Driverless shuttle busses appear in the Netherlands. They are quite limited, but a start.

This young woman from America won this year's Google Science Fair.

Microsoft Office 2016 is released today.

Here is a detailed review of Office 2016—it is all about the Cloud.

Everyone is repeating this rumor that Apple will have a car on the market in 2019.

Mobile ordering at Starbucks is now nationwide. Prepare for the chaos.

Another country decides that it has jurisdiction beyond its borders. The government of France tells Google to forget about people all over the world, not just in France.

We are from the government and we are here to help. (yikes!) Many Federal agencies are helping all of us get more broadband—$10billion being spent.

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Wednesday September 23, 2015

Yogi Berra dies at 90.

The copyright to Happy Birthday is settled—maybe.

The heart rate monitor on an Apple Watch saved this teen's life. Now Tim Cook wants him at Apple.

Toshiba shows its updated Chromebooks. The price is climbing too high.

Instagram has 400million users—100million added in the last nine months. The definition of success has changed.

The story behind Imgur and the brother and sister team that founded it.

Our President declards that broadband "has steadily shifted from an optional amenity to a core utility." If he says it, it must be so?

JK Rowling gives the backstory of the Potter family.

Firefox 41 is released.

Our Congress is letting an H-1B visa fee expire. Its just (someone else's) money.

EU Ministers decide that everyone will accept 120,000 refugees whether you want them or not.

Clock boy becomes the most-invited person in the world. I think someone has duped a lot of people here.

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Thursday September 24, 2015

I suppose this is in the category of predictable and predicted. Persons from the Mid-East who are not Syrian are blending in with the crowds of Syrian refugees and being admitted to Europe when they were previously turned away.

The government of China continues to install spyware on Lenovo laptops.

Coming summer 2016, Angry Birds the movie. Is civilization safe?

Trend or just a blip? eBook sales drop as old-fashioned printed books surge.

This is what we should be doing with technology: a paraplegic man walks by controlling robotic legs with his brain.

We're number 55! US 4G LTE speeds not advancing with the rest of the world.

Boeing lands a $38billion deal to sell commercial airliners to China. That is a big deal $$$.

Pebble introduces a new, slimmer, round-face smartwatch.

More bad news about the OPM data breach. Will it ever end?

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Friday September 25, 2015

The Google Keep app is finally on the iPhone.

Xiaomi is now building a copy of the Apple MacBook.

Yahoo's stock price drops to a one-year low.

Here is one for the Constitution and Bill of Rights: Federal judge rules that 5th amendment protects smartphone passwords.

Samsung opens a big, new office in Silicon Valley.

IBM will open a Watson AI office in San Francisco.

Adobe updates its lower-end Elements software with higher-end features.

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Saturday September 26, 2015

What a photo. The Chinese President is in town and all these tech CEOs got a picture with him. One day people will look at this photo.

Tim Cook was in town to meet the Chinese President, so he showed up at the Georgetown Apple Store.

No kidding this time—North America is out of IPv4 addresses. Got to get those IP lightbulbs quick.

The iPhone 6s appeared in Apple stores yesterday, and of course first-in-line meant the usual hub bub.

Fallout from the Volkswagon emissions-cheating scandal. The EPA will now waste more money on smarter testing.

To classic works on the visual presentation of information are found on the Internet Archive.

A look at bone-conduction headphones. It is a different way to "hear."

Facebook updgrades its Notes to a full blog platform.

The Presidents of the US and China agree to some sort of agreement about economic hacking. No mention if the people working in the two governments will go along.

The $9 CHIP single-board computer is now shipping.

Google improves the technology behind its voice recognition and voice understanding.

"Hope isn't a strategy, but it is an awfully good tactic." Seth Godin

Online learning with Tree House. This company is new to me.

D.C., Maryland, Virginia: 3 of 4 fastest broadband speeds near nation's capitol. Your tax dollars at waste.

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Sunday September 27, 2015

Competition sometimes pushes Comcast to increase the value for customers.

Mark Zuckerburg speaks at the UN about Internet access in refugee camps. How about basic food, shelter, clothing, and medical?

Silicon Valley shifts from shmoozing China's leader to India's leader.

Employees at Fast Company wear trackers for two weeks as a test.

More revelations about more lying from Hillary Clinton on more emails. So what? She isn't going to jail like the rest of us would.

The sometimes mind-numbing practice of practice writing and practice writing and ...

How fear can creep into the mind of any writer at any time.

Links to TED talks for writers.

This post has actual tips on becoming a better writer. Good material here.

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