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 27-July 3, 2016

Summary of this week:

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

Monday June 27, 2016

The Hubble telescope continues to operate. Failure to success to failure.

This year, already half over, Google will sell its own smartphone.

Google is retraining its engineers in machine learning. Good move.

Silicon Valley, home of  “assisted living for rich hipsters.”

The non-binding Brexit vote may not bind after all.

Global equity markets lost $2Trillion (with a T) on Friday. Perhaps they will find it before Christmas.

Huawei to make its own operating system.

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Tuesday June 28, 2016

Another intellectual bemoans the outcome of the Brexit vote of the soiled masses. One person one vote. Diplomas don't get you an extra vote.

Amazon Inspire:  an online marketplace with tens of thousands of free lesson plans, worksheets and other instructional materials for teachers. Coming before school starts.

Google expands its education offerings including virtual reality field trips.

TV is not dead. We still watch it all the time.

HP Enterprise is already reorganizing.

Airbnb is suing the regulators in San Francisco. Don't they realize that government is just helping?

Y Combinator wants to build a few new cities from scratch. Got any real estate?

HP's newest Chromebook has an 11.6" touchscreen and costs only $189. Aha! Someone gets it.

A call for our President to pardon Edward Snowden.

Something for the office from Dell—70" touchscreen.

Google updates the imagery for its Maps.

Google begins Project Bloks to teach kids to program with blocks. Similar to Osmo Coding.

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Wednesday June 29, 2016

We have a vaccine that keeps  mice safe from the Zika virus. True. Promising? Doubtful.

Here are the details on Volkswagon's $15billion settlement. A friend has a VW diesel. He likes it just the way it is.

The cost of health care in America keeps going up and up and up. Predictable and predicted when that law was passed.

Hillary announces her tech platform—doesn't include personal email servers for the rest of us.

It does want to flood the labor market and lower wages.

The quiet and unprecedented arming of Federal regulatory agencies. Our President okays some citizens having guns, but not the rest of us.

Don't do this at home. Mostly because you don't have an Eiffel tower at home. Must see video.

Hillary skates through the Benghazi issue. An American Ambassador's residence was stormed by an army which killed the Ambassador. How many times has that happened in our history? Why didn't the media scream for her resignation and banishment from politics? Are you kidding me?

DoNotPay bot is beating government traffic tickets in government courts. Good for them.

People keep having these false arguments about self-driving cars killing other people. Gross misunderstanding of the technology.

A Spanish company has an exoskeleton to help disabled kids walk. This is what we should be doing with technology instead of serving the jaded interests of the new rich.

Evernote announces a cut in services and rise in prices.

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Thursday June 30, 2016

The story of building a microphone that finds the source of sound. Good story of how things are supposed to work, don't work, and lead the learning and improvement.

Google is asking our persmission to track us more and show us more targeted ads.

Frugality? Amazon is bulding glass domes in Seattle to house endangered species.

After two years and $300million, Google starts using the fastest undersea US-Japan connection.

A good guy's list of 2.2million bad guy's is leaked. Can someone sue someone on this?

The iPhone is nine years old. "As the iPhone shows, it's okay to start with limitations and gradually expand the product over the years."

WalMart steps on Amazon with free, two-day nationwide shipping.

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Friday July 1, 2016

Clever use of light-reflecting material to defeat flash photos.

A Tesla self-driving car crashes into a semi-trailer and kills its human non-driver.

Senator Eliz Warren blasts big US tech companies for success. Odd, isn't it?

Spanish police raid Google's Madrid office, grab tax records.

HP Enterprise wins $3billion in court from Oracle.

Dell departs the Android tablet market.

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Saturday July 2, 2016

No Internet viewing. Travel day.

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Sunday July 3, 2016

We have yet another X-as-a-service: HP introduces Device-as-a-Service.

Linux reaches 2% of the desktop market. Windows 7 is still in the top spot by a long ways.

BMW signs on Intel to help with self-driving cars.

It is still who who know more than what you know. Sorry folks. The world hasn't changed much.

Does anyone want to buy Twitter? Everyone uses this, but it is a failing business.

More back story on the colossal succe$$ that Amazon Web Services has become.

Always behind: US Senate finally stops issuing Blackberries to staff.

This writer hires a 1-on-1 full-time mentor. It costs money, but the inspiration and advice...

Common distractions for writers and a few hints on what to do about them.

Writing doubts? Write about them privately. Pound them out. Flush the system.

Writers: how to disconnect and take some time off.

The "failure" of most writers.

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