OK let me preface this by stating that I am a huge fan of James Bond/ World Domination type of films. I also want to say that this most likely has influenced this topic. Does Google have too much power?

     Google started out as a simple and very good search engine but as time has passed they have expanded. They have added an online office suite, webmail, instant messaging, internal office search. They have attached themselves to our browsers; IE, Firefox, Opera, and have released their own, Chrome. And now they have released their own mobile phone OS, Android, and are trying to soon control all your other calls with a product in limited beta called Grand Central. Soon this will all be mobile with talks of floating Data Centers. And what about their service to index medical records?

     With this much data and information all flowing through one company who is truly monitoring those who monitor us. I know of no other organization who is collecting so much information about our lives, with maybe the exception of the NSA (and who knows they probably use Google themselves). Just think of every time you do a Google search for a product, let’s say “cola” who determines that Pepsi is higher on the list of search results than Coke. With online commerce becoming a major part of our lives, Google can easily manipulate where we “find” the best deals, so what if they didn’t list the company that has the best price because they didn’t pay for the advertising. Who has the power to influence presidential campaigns by putting those article that favor their position higher on the search rankings (the articles you most likely read first). All this is just something to think about. I use Google every day and will most likely continue to do so. They say knowledge is power, what is keeping the company that has all the knowledge from having all the power.  Can James Bond save us now?

This is going to be a quick one. I made the mistake of downloading Spore to my LG Dare now it is hard to put down. Well gotta get back to playing spore

OK I just downloaded Microsoft’s Live Writer as a client to use when posting to this blog. It looks like a really scaled down version of Word or maybe Word Pad with a few extra features. I will be using this for several days to see how I like it and who knows it may become a permanent tool.

After a disappoint incident this weekend that resulted in me not getting to eat at Buffalo Wild Wings I was left with a craving for some Buffalo style wings. I decided to take a chance and try Wing Stop

in Point Loma, Ca. I must say I wasn’t too disappointed. They aren’t BWW but they were meaty, juicy, not under cooked and the sauce wasn’t half bad. I was able to try two sauces with my combo order so I chose the hot, which was a thick buffalo sauce with good flavor and just enough heat. My second choice was Garlic Parmesan. I chose this at the recommendation of the cashier. I must say this was good but not great, they were basically wings tossed in a very light coating of garlic butter and than covered with Parmesan cheese. There was no heat to them at all. I may considering ordering them again as they were a nice contrast to the heat in the hot sauce. My combo also came with some fries. Now this was a surprise, not that I got fries with the combo but that they were fresh cut, hot, with a delicious garlic season salt. These were excellent. I will definitely have these again. Overall it was a good experience that calmed my craving.

Well I just set up a redirect from one of the domains that I purchased to this page. This page can now be viewed using http://www.bites-n-bytes.net I figured that this is an appropriate domain for this site.

TTFN