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: 6-12 February, 2017

Summary of this week:

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

Monday February 6, 2017

The flying drone show makes it premiere at the Super Bowl in from of 111million viewers. Just the beginning.

If you are smart, you have to hate President Trump. 97 smart companies file briefs in court to defeat the immigration stay.

The iPhone has been with us ten years. Mobile 2.0 is about to start.

Tracing a terrorist attack. These are not the three stooges. Organized, communicative, tech saavy.

Want to be a millionaire? Software engineering, not pro sports.

Amazon's Super Bowl commercial promises Prime Drone delivery—somewhere, sometime, not here, not now.

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Tuesday February 7, 2017

The screaming over the immigration ban (fake news) continues at high levels.

Syrian refugee in Germany sues Facebook over fake news stories.

Pro sports and the new TV. Pro sports isn't doing well.

Amazon is building supermarkets that don't have human employees.

Vizio smart TVs were spying on viewers. They pay $2.2million in court.

It seems that in America if you are eduated and smart, you hate Trump. Otherwise, you aren't smart.

House of Representatives passes bill require law enforcement to get warrants before searching old emails. I thought liberals were supposed to pass such laws and conservatives would oppose them.

Nvidia updates its complete line of QuadPro cards using its newest GPUs.

The revolving relationship of Microsoft, code repositories, Git, Windows,  file systems, and GigaBytes.

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Wednesday February 8, 2017

Amazon's Jeff Bezos denies stories of grocery stores without employees.

The social media giants admit they can't monitor their content. Just give up?

All the big tech companies give money to ALL the big political players (even Trump).

Apple tries to boost the Apple TV by hiring a TV guy from Amazon.

Amazon Payments now has 33million customers—up 10million from last year.

Google releases Cloud Search to search across its G Suite for business.

Apple sold 6million watches last quarter. Not bad for a failed product. The definition of success changes.

Got a large home theatre and $8,000? Get the BenQ 4K projector system.

Kansas City completes it smart street line with lots of computers and communications: wonderfulness.

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Thursday February 9, 2017

A basic income experiment begins in Kenya. Because of low cost of living, 26,000 people will participate.

Snap takes steps to prevent Facebook from reverse engineering its software and copying its services.

Facebook had hundreds of VR Oculus demo stations in Best Buy. No one looked; they're gone.

Automated trading: gone are the traders, here are the engineers (fewer of them). PS: gone are jobs.

Some visitors to the US may be asked to provide all social media passwords. These are not citizens. They don't have rights. And, by the way, this isn't good for the US tourism business.

Facebook Lite now has 200million users in the rest of the world. The definition of success keeps changing.

Facebook adds the weather report, so you don't have to leave Facebook to see the forecast.

Pinterest Lens: take a photo, Pinterest shows you related photos. AI for everyone.

The editors at Wikipedia have banned The Daily Mail as a reliable source.

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Friday February 10, 2017

Nvidia has a good financial quarter.

Western Digital announces the first SanDisk SSDs for data center use.

The TSA, we may not have them much longer, knows its behavior detection program doesn't work. Still use it, though.

A Federal appeals court continues the ban on the "Muslim travel ban." I pray they know what they are doing.

Here come the new TVs for 2017.

Caution: just because its a VPN Virtual Private Network, it may not be secure to use.

Snap has a $1billion contract for cloud services with Amazon.

Tesla learns that manufacturing cars involves lots of people who don't hold to the dream of the founder.

Apple's Tim Cook met with the Prime Minister of the UK. I guess that is okay. Meeting with the President of the US is not. A new world for us.

Researchers have found that putting a disease in the body causes the body to kill cancer. Proceed with caution.

A somewhat skewed salary survey for software engineers.

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Saturday February 11, 2017

Intel will build a $7billion factory in Arizona and create 3,000 jobs.

Low stocks of the iPad Pro on the shelf indicates a new model is coming real soon now.

Tim Cook of Apple is big on augmented reality, not virtual reality. We are already using more AR than we realize.

Amazon claims to be able to guess our age via our photos.

I find this fascinating: UPS saved big $$$ by using routes with no left turns. Distance does not equal fuel.

The growth of ISIS propaganda on Twitter.

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Sunday February 12, 2017

Cloud backups made super reliable, simple, and old technology with Usenet and Rsynch. Yes, it does work.

Study of Wikipedia "toxic" commentators reveal what we knew: a small handful of persons ruin it for everyone else.

250,000 tech jobs unfilled? Caution, many jobs that are advertised don't exist.

Tim Cook wants a massive campaign to battle fake news. Well, Apple has a massive amount of cash  in the bank...

Data Rescue: download and save government data before Donald Trump hits the big delete button. Oh well, it's a hobby or something.

Using stories in non-fiction writing. Of course.

It may sound trite, but a key to being more productive as a writer is deciding to be more productive as a writer.

Thoughts on how to sell more books.

Distributing your self-published book.

Sometimes you put away a piece of writing, pull up a blank screen, and start over.

Title says it all: How to write a book proposal for nonfiction. Excellent tips.

Thoughts on design infographics.

Body posture and fighting depression for writers.

100 best writing web sites.

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