Dwayne Phillips ' Day Book
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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.
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This
week: July 4-10, 2016
Summary of this week:
- Happy Birthday America
- FBI finishes the Hillary-email investigation, special persons win again
- Microsoft launches Skype videoteleconferencing
- Sharing a password is now a Federal offense
Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Saturday
- Sunday
Monday July 4, 2016
Happy Birthday America. It has been a largely successful experiment we are running here.
A list of pointers to statistical pattern recognition tutorials.
A former Facebook employee reveals a lot of dirt that goes on in the offices.
The Tesla crash fatality once again shows that you can't build a fool proof system—it appears that there was a fool riding behind the wheel.
Tesla is learning how difficult it is to manufacture automobiles.
The state-of-the-practice in smartphones. I guess we can go back to calling them just plain phones.
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Tuesday July 5, 2016
Our FBI proves once again that this is a nation of special persons, not laws. Oh wait, is that right? Perhaps
Apple is fumbling with iPhone fatigue.
The BBC's revised, new-cast "Top Gear" has flopped.
John Cena on being an American in the 21st century.
Google partners with Britain's NHS to put DeepMind onto spotting eye disease.
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Wednesday July 6, 2016
Our FBI concludes that Hillary Clinton is still Hillary Clinton.
In
other Federal government news...our TSA tackles and beats a 19-year-old
woman who is partially deaf, blind in one eye, paralyzed and has a
brain tumor.
Rumors: Microsoft is working on a desktop computer like the iMac.
There was a time when our Justice Department would not allow this as
they claimed that Microsoft was a monopoly and would be killing off the
last competitors and our government would have to take over the
management of Microsoft and ensure that everyone failed in the
marketplace and that would be better for all of us somehow...but I
digress.
Scientists find that the polluted waters in Brazil are still polluted.
A man believes that Google is spying on him, so he burns a Google Street View car.
Microsoft starts Skype for Business for video teleconferencing.
NASA launches a big balloon. Great. If all goes well, by the end of this decade the US will be able to put a man into orbit. Is this 1963?
In
India, it is illegal to determine the gender of an unborn child.
Someone tell all the US tech companies before they go to jail.
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Thursday July 7, 2016
Seth Godin has an excellent piece on the computer replacing human jobs and what a person can still do.
Hotwire a car? How passe. Use the Internet to steal.
Federal law has been stretched to the point that sharing a password is a Federal offense. Government to the rescue.
US Attorney General Loretta Lynch verifies that Hillary Clinton is still Hillary Clinton.
Amazon has another financial success—this time with music streaming.
The Russians put three persons into space—something our NASA cannot do.
Great photos from drones. We won't see these from the US as our FAA has outlawed drones in huge areas.
The Mozilla Context Graph project—trying to build a better recommendation system for persons who browse.
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Friday July 8, 2016
The biggest winner in any Yahoo sale will be Mozilla, who will get $1billion for doing nothing.
Knowledge has never been so available and so disdained.
Facebook is back to biasing the news to fit its agenda.
Police officers are killed by a "sniper" in Dallas.
It is a terrible thing when the consent of the governed is gone. There
is no justification for this incident. Nevertheless, every blunder by
the governing adds to these incidents. This goes from a Hillary Clinton
down to a bully on the street corner. This is neither the first nor the
last such ambushing of government employees. Reversing the direction of
this requires more leadership than we currently have.
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Saturday July 9, 2016
Travel day, no Internet viewing
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Sunday July 10, 2016
The biggest event in the world this week was the rollout of Pokeman Go. Forget all that other news.
And now we have UFS (Universal Flash Storage) memory cards. Smaller, faster, cheaper, more bytes.
Economic recovery? Technology job listings are down 40% year over year.
Thoughts on reading better, not just reading more.
If you are trying to make money on your blog, some of us are not, here are some common mistakes.
If you work freelance, writing or otherwise, you must care for yourself. Sick=no work=no pay.
Rules of writing to ignore. I must be lucky as I had never heard of these.
Why write? because I can't not.
Thoughts on helping yourself understand what you already know and write that.
A new term for writers: idea debt.
How to help yourself finish writing whatever it is you are writing.
The myth of the need for a giant writer's platform to be a success.
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