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: January 11-17, 2016

Summary of this week:

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

Monday January 11, 2016

David Bowie dies at 69.

Intel appears to understand what augmented reality can do in this repair-person's hard hat.

Intel sets some kind of world record with a 100-drone swarm flying in a light show.

Why do Americans work so much? Let's not confuse hours at the workplace with work.

Linux kernel 4.4 LTS (Long-Term Support) is released.

The 31 worst countries on earth: Africa dominates the list.

Office rent in San Francisco is now higher than Manhattan. I guess this is a measure of success.

Yahoo is experiencing a brain drain. Of course outsiders are applying for jobs there; we are in a recession with high unemployment.

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Tuesday January 12, 2016

Alabama wins the not-quite-so-mythical-anymore national championship in college football.

Social media, surveillance, and our government calculating our "threat score." I wish they wouldn't take these things as seriously as they do.

How Bernie Sanders raised $73million for his campaign without a staff dedicated to fundraising.

Our President will listen to questions on YouTube and, in the best political tradition, say what he wants to say regardless.

In America, we have to pass a Federal law allowing kids to walk to school. What happened here? This has something to do with treating exceptions as the norm and treating the norm as an exception.

Amazon increases its movie producing in an effort to win an Academy Award.

Uber is famous, but lost $1billion in the first half of 2015. Can't stay in business long.

The Elephant in the Valley: a published survey about women trying to work in the tech industry. I pitty the poor fool who treats my granddaughter badly.

Intel Skylake processor have an error that stops the processor. 99% will never see this as we won't be doing the calculations that surface the problem.

Apple releases iOS 9.3 beta with a roaming user profile aimed at the education market.

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Wednesday January 13, 2016

The Raspberry Picademy is coming to the US for educators.

Seagate introduces an 8TeraByte disk for the home.

A closer look at the Remix OS—Android that runs on a PC.

And now hackers have hacked the accounts of our Director of National Intelligence.

PC sales continued to fall, even at Christmas, but Apple computer sales went up.

Thoughts on creating economic inequality and why it is good for everyone.

Alphabet (Google) creates a new virtual reality divsion to work on the technology.

In praise of the Intel Clear Linux Project.  Here is Intel's site for this.

This is an excellent infographic on the millenials.

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Thursday January 14, 2016

Using Helium, Seagate makes a 10TeraByte 3.5" disk drive.

Here is a closer look at the new education benefits coming in iOS 9.3.

The stock price of Twitter continues to fall.

Bad times at GoPro: poor sales, falling stock price, and laying off 7% of the workforce.

Al Jazeera America will cease all US operations in April. This means several hundred people lose their jobs in the US.

Microsoft releases its JavaScript engine as Open Source.

Udacity offers a money-back get-a0job guarantee for some of its Nanodegrees.

GyroGlove: gyroscope equipped glove greatly reduces hand tremors in Parkinson's patients.

It appears that science teachers grade boys and girls differently with the girls being punished for being girls.

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Friday January 15, 2016

Netflix is being more diligent in ensuring people aren't skirting around the Internet to watch movies.

Sheryl Sandberg donates $31million of Facebook stock to charity.

NASA awards Sierra Nevada six flights to the ISS.

Deaths are greater than births in Europe as the non-immigrant population is dwindling.

Yahoo releases an unprecedented dataset to be used in artificial intelligence research.

Orbital ATK and SpaceX receive NASA contracts to build new rocket engines.

Intel has a better than expected financial quarter.

The state-of-the-practice in portable computers for 2016.

Want a standing desk? Try this clever $25 folding cardboard box.

One person's experience with the Nest thermostat's software error. If you have software running your home, expect problems.

Remember IBM? For the 23rd straight year they lead everyone in the number of patents awarded.

There is a lot of fuss recently about self-parking cars. The technology for this is decades old.

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Saturday January 16, 2016

The Bernie Sanders presidential campaign acts in a most unpresidential manner towards Wikipedia.

Intel boosts the performance of its integrated graphics processors to that of most separate GPUs.

Our President is to spend $4billion to write regulations in favor of self-driving cars. Perhaps someone could explain this to me. The man can cancel two centuries of immigration laws with a speech, but has to spend $3billion to allow for self-driving cars.

Someone finds the largest canyon on earth under Antarctic ice. We know quite little about our planet. But some seem to know what the temperature was 10,000 years ago. I don't understand some people.

A team demonstrates the security risk of inexpensive webcams.

Microsoft announces that new computers will not run old versions of Windows.

Given the failure of Federal rural broadband (a colossal waste of money), Wisconsin lawmakers start a statewide initiative to bring broadband to its rural areas.

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Sunday Janurary 17, 2016

Wikipedia turns 15 and starts a new fund raising campaign to ensure its long-term survival.

The mobile revolution has passed high tide; here comes the robot revolution, but "robots" aren't what we think they are. You have to see this post just for the high school photo of Paul Allen and Bill Gates.

Microsoft releases several R programming tools.

A look at what all this no-contract smartphone business means.

A list of publishers that pay for travel writing.

No time to writer? What are you choosing to do instead?

Writers and "working" in pajamas. If you want to be a serious writer, start being serious.

This is a good post on the use of detail in fiction writing.

Ideas for different markets in writing.

How to start writing again. For me, the best tonic is to sit in the chair with my fingers on the keyboard and press the first key, then the next key, then the next key...

This is a good post on word processors other than MS Word that a writer can use.

Excellent Post: a list of places where a writer can find feedback.

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