“The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District said Friday that it cut phone services out of safety concerns. ‘Organizers planning to disrupt BART service on August 11, 2011 stated they would use mobile devices to coordinate their disruptive activities and communicate about the location and number of BART Police,’ BART said in a statement posted to its website.’ “

This service disruption also cut off essential services for emergency 911 as well as any other emergency services. Cell phone signals had ceased to exist in the metro. Scary, isn’t it, to think that the police are now controlling crowds via disrupting communication. Sounds like it is time for San Francisco to rethink their police control.

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While Facebook is “The Social Giant Site” Google has been quickly on it’s tail ever since releasing Google+. While many users are transitioning over to Google+ via friend invites, Google has been quickly pursuing some of the same features “The Facebook” have.

Do you remember when it was called “The Facebook”, I surely do. While Sean Parker (the inventor of Napster) suggested an innovative change to the name of “The Facebook” to just Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg also had other ideas for his site. By allowing Game Developers to develop games that would sit inside the “bowels” of Facebook. Yes, you heard it from me, “the bowels of Facebook,” the place where lives are painstakingly lost due to the addiction that is “The Social Giant Site.” However, why would Mr. Zuckerberg want to have games developed for his site, unless, unless of course he was making a profit. Yes that must be it, a profit, and not just a small profit as a matter of fact. Practically a third of the profit that the game developers would be generating, would go to Mr. Zuckerberg. While he may have set out to create a Social Networking Site that would eventually be worth Millions and Millions of Dollars, he could not help but to add ads or even worse add applications, to even further push his revenue. Nope, greed set in and he decided he needed a chunk of change from game developers. That my friends, is the story of why Facebook has games now.

However, Google has now gotten into the social networking field. Google+ while it has caught many people’s attention, it has lost some people’s attention due to a lack of “fun.” While fun to some people might mean a stroll in the park, or hanging out with friends and family. Some people would much rather sit behind a computer screen for hours on end playing Flash Games. While this writer can see some benefits to games on a place that is Social, I cannot help but wonder why the social engineering sites of yesteryear no longer are what they used to be. Ok, end rant…

Now with this new innovation to Google+ also comes money. Once again the game developers have to share some of their profits, with Google, however the sum is not nearly as large as “The Social Networking Giants.” Google is only charging game developers a modest 5% on profits for their games. Thus bringing in a money war between Facebook and Google. If I were a game developer, I would ditch Facebook and go with the place that I retain most of my profits. Google for the Win?

Now where is my cup of coffee?

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While this world continues to become more reliant on computers, and other popular devices. Software is either something we love or hate.

While we as people tend to like as much automation as possible within our software. Some things should still left to be controlled by the users. Whether you are a power user, or a simple I know how to use a computer kind of, type of person. One problem that we all face is a lack of control over software add-ons. A good example to go along with this would be when you install Adobe Shockwave. If you are like me, you click through things at a rate of forgetting to remove a check on a box or two. Suddenly you are surprised to see the Yahoo toolbar on your browser of choice. However, Firefox 8 is putting a stop to unapproved add-ons. In order for an add-on to work in Firefox 8 you will be prompted as to whether or not allow it by Firefox, not the application installer that is of a third party origin.

Control, people in power love it, and those of us that are not in power want it. Firefox 8, gives you control over your browser add-ons.

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One thing is for certain though, no matter how many accidents I have seen, idiots on the road, companies treating you like crap, I learned it is just like running a review site. Today, I had read both part 1 and part 2 of “Another day in the Office.” I can recall back to when eTeknix first started, and well, the same ole stuff happened back then too. While the forum still had potential, any customers that Andy had to deal with wanted a pristine review done on a not so great product, okay fine, a terrible product. Truth be told, if you did not give a company the review they were looking for, you were done reviewing their products.

While I may not have been reviewing products these past several months, I have been delivering them. I have been delivering products to customers that are rude, don’t care if the vehicle is dangerously overweight, and rather make the driver sit for extended periods of time loading or unloading a 53′ trailer. Personally, I am just fed up with the trucking industry, I am sure it is just as bad in America as it is anywhere else. The people driving the trucks, delivering products, are the people that make the world survive, without us, you would not have food, shelter, water, and the latest technological craze to sweep eTeknix.

Okay, so maybe I got carried away with that last bit. What is my point you might ask? After I read Andy’s “Another Day in the Office” articles, I realized some edge was making a push towards eTeknix readers. I was the editor of eTeknix up to the point that I decided to start driving truck. When I first started publishing articles, I remembered Andy did not care too much for the edgy bits of news I would write. He would always have me rephrase, in fear of the company getting upset. Now that I see eTeknix is straight forward about products now, it is time for this trucker to park it and make her return back to the fabulous, glamorous world of computer hardware, software, and electronics. Even if the underworld of a review site is not so fabulous and glamorous. One thing I can promise, you, the reader is the truth? However controversial, edgy, mundane, or destructive it may be, I will deliver it to you. Can you handle that, do you feel me, because I have more than a truck load to contribute. Welcome to eTeknix, the no bull**** part of your cup of coffee.