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 6-12, 2016

Summary of this week:

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

Monday June 6, 2016

Soon going extinct? The weatherman. Just look at your phone.

Nest: a story of success leading to failure. Too much money and no direction or product. Sometimes it is a good thing to have a niche product, employ a few dozen people, and be profitable. It isn't necessary for every company to have 100million users and $100billion in the bank.

TeamViewer joins the list of those who have been hacked.

Mark Zuckerburg's social media accounts have been hacked.

A look at the Bose wireless headphones. Good and expensive.

Netflix will produce some original shows in India.

The promise, and the other side, of machine learning with big data.

It seems that computer processors emit noise as they work with encryption keys. Listening reveals the keys.

The services from Google and Amazon are making it less necessary to update your hardware. Folks are keeping their phones and such much longer.

Good point: keep people from guessing your passwords by lying about your past in social media.

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Tuesday June 7, 2016

Engineering principles of the Khan Academy. It is a good practice to state your principles.

It appears that open-source projects share an attribute with all others: adding people to a late project makes it later.

"How focusing on communication, teams, and innovation can help you transform your company"

Sales of clothing have significantly dropped in the western world.

ooops, white-hat hackers hacked a Mitsubishi car—easily. These IoT things aren't secure.

Facebook joins Amazon with live video game playing streaming. I suppose this is entertaining.

Insider report: Google isn't building a gadget they never said they were building.

Insider report: the not-so-glamorous life of flight attendants and flying.

Insider report: HBO's John Oliver uncovers the world of debt recovery and collection agencies.

What is may mean when Android apps run on Chromebooks.

Startup companies are mastering the art of meaningless buzzwords. This wasn't supposed to happen.

Microsoft launched Planner on Office 365.

How to spoof Waze and get those commuters out of your neighborhood.

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Wednesday June 8, 2016

The state-of-the-practice in lower-price Android phones.

How to run Android on an iPhone from the guy who ran Win95 on the Apple Watch.

A call for Apple to return to advancing the state-of-the-art in computers.

SpaceX plans to relaunch a rocket by the end of the year.

Amazon is investing billion$ in India and creating tens of thousands of jobs there. US Tax Policy needs fixing?

Yet another certification: this one from Google for software development agencies.

A life-sized, passenger-carrying drone has permission for flight tests in Nevada.

More FOIA folly. Our government claims to honor our requests for our information, but flops on us.

How little most people are paid for working in and on a big-time movie.

Wall Street Journal analysis reveals something I witnessed 30 years ago: foreign students in US colleges cheat a lot. I believe it to be a mismatch of cultural expectations. Different cultures have different expectations of the role of "the test" in education.

San Francisco's Board of Supervisors smack Airbnb with new regulations.

Yahoo is selling thousands of its patents.

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Thursday June 9, 2016

Google and Apple change how they will share revenue with app developers. It is better for the developers.

A detailed story about Ed Snowden, the NSA, and how things dysfunction inside government bureaucracies.

EXOS and Intel partner to gather better data on fitness, athletes, and performance. The problem is that those people who can supply better data are professional athletes. They are far outside the norm. How do you apply the data of six-sigma persons to everyone else?

Google and its struggles to serve the enterprise in the cloud.

Much has been written and screamed about the Stanford rape, trial, sentencing, and all the writing and screaming since. Life can be difficult. There are consequences when we do the wrong thing. There are consequences when we do the right thing. Consuming substances until I an unconcious is a bad thing to do. Pouncing on someone who is unconcious is a bad thing to do. Being in a place at a time when these things happen also has its consequences. This may offend you, but several thousand years of human history seems to indicate these things are mostly true.

There are 32million Twitter account passwords floating about. Sigh. Time to change mine again, I guess.

Tinder changes it policy—no one under 18 admitted.

Solar Voyager: a DIY, solar-powered, autonomous boat is slowly crossing the Atlantic.

The very close relationship of Google and the Clinton campaign. This could be the ultimate lobbying coup.

Robots replacing humans and basic income. Technology and politics colliding. It won't be pretty.

LAPD just bought 100 luxury electric cars. No wonder California is going broke.

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Friday June 10, 2016

People are bidding over $5billion for what's left of Yahoo.

Larry Page is investing in several flying-car companies.

Apple steps into the power business and will sell electricity to the grid.

"the internet has become the "world's largest surveillance network..." Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Google enters the geo-location-business business with Nearby app.

Got kids and want to know of the nearest playground or other facilities? Winnie.

Facebook new feature: comment on videos and everything else with your own video. We now have the age of the micro video blog.

Bluetooth 5 spec to be announced next week. It will have 4x speed and 2x range.

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Saturday June 11, 2016

A list of the state-of-the-practice in laptop computers for summer 2016.

What techies are buying on Amazon. Lots of little tablets.

Apple will start buying smartphone processors from Intel.

Amazon will launch its own streaming music service real soon now.

Not much Internet viewing this morning as I am on a family outing.

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Sunday June 12, 2016

Elon Musk learns about how tough the auto business is. He claims people are filing fraudulent safety claims against Tesla. It is, after all, just a fancy car.

Hopes, dreams, and rumors for the update to the Apple line of laptops this year.

Excellent video here about basic math and geometry concepts.

An analysis of building iPhones and such in US plants vice China.

Examining HOW you are to do something—another form of analysis paralysis.

Thoughts about quiting and finishing and other self doubts.

The practice of Deliberate Practice.

Some financial tips for freelance writers. Spend less than you earn. Like the item below, there are no magic butterflies.

Want to be more productive as a writer? Do you want that enough to change how you write? Really? Let's be honest. Learn to type faster and use outlines. But those things aren't about creative flow and all those magic butterflies.

"Success as an author is all about consistency and follow-through."

Self-awareness and trying to succeed at something you value.

Common blogging mistakes.

Some things are impossible, but most aren't. Trust the process, i.e., pick up one thing, then another, then another.

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