Editor’s Note: The Nightshift will post in concise form for the next several days. It will return in expanded form by the first of next week. Press Clippings: Good Morning. It’s Wednesday, 17 May 2017 and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. The White Chaos continues…..this is not going to end …
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Start Them Young: How Google Moved In on Education.
Paying Attention: An informative and necessary review of how Google/Alphabet gained critical market share in the educational market in the United States. The piece, published in and linked from The New York Times, details the value of scale, simplicity, and customization. If you’ve ever used a Chromebook (and if you haven’t, you should ) you’ll …
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The Nightshift: 16 May 2017
Editor’s Note: The Nightshift will post in concise form for the next several days. It will return in expanded form by the first of next week. Press Clippings: Good Morning. It’s Tuesday, 16 May 2017 and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. Another day, another crisis at the White House and in …
Heartbeat
Paying Attention: For over a decade I have exercised with a Polar S710 Heart Rate Monitor. It was a Christmas gift, and it turned into a life saver. One year, when my heart beat inexplicably leaped from a resting 58 to a rising 200+after an afternoon run, it was the Polar that told me the …
The Nightshift: 15 May 2017
Press Clippings: Good Morning. It’s Monday, 15 May 2017 and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. North Korea continues to unnerve by firing off another missile test over the weekend. President Trump’s staff is working on finding a replacement for the fired head of the FBI, James Comey. Washington remains …
The Nightshift: 14 May 2017
Press Clippings: Good Morning and Happy Mother’s Day. It’s Sunday, 14 May 2017 and this is theMorning Edition of The Nightshift: the world’s overnight news feed. North Korea, never one to let sleeping dogs lie, fired off another missile test yesterday. This one a short range missile that went 500 miles before dropping into the sea. Defiance is …
Woody Allen on living to be 100
“You can live to be 100 if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be 100…..”
The Nightshift: 13 May 2017
Press Clippings: Good Morning, It’s Saturday, 13 May 2017 and this is the Mid-day Edition of The Nightshift: the world’s overnight news feed. A global cyber attack/ransomware scheme has hit all over the world and is causing immense problems. The tool used for the attack was allegedly stolen from the NSA. Be very careful online. Washington is boiling …
The Nightshift: 12 May 2017
Press Clippings: Good Morning, It’s Friday, 12 May 2017 and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift: the world’s overnight news feed. Well…things in Washington have deteriorated to the point that we’re adding another news/reference link to the site: Lawfareblog.com . A very good and very sharp read on current legal issues, some of them in …
Bob Hope Quote on Washington
“I love to go to Washington, if only to be closer to my money..”