I played the new game Rockband with some of my buddies last night, I was the drummer, and it was the most fun I’ve had in a long time. We played on the easy difficulty level and when we tried to move up to ‘medium’ it wasn’t fun anymore…

Fox News anchors seem to be sitting behind Macbook Pro’s. I don’t know if this is new, or I just haven’t noticed it in a while?

I’m looking for ideas for the perfect Christmas gift for my girlfriend. I had my heart set-out to get her this one thing (which I cannot say because it’s still a possibility and she may read this blog, in which case, I love you!) but I just found out that I don’t think it’s possible to get for her because of technical reasons.

So I’m back to the drawing board and I’m out of ideas. I’m looking for some sort of inspiration. She doesn’t like jewelry so the most obvious choices are out the window…

A report from the Wall Street Journal reports that Google could be releasing a hosted storage system in the coming months. This has been rumored for a long-long time now and has been dubbed GDrive.

This will be great, now Google will know the following about me:

• What I’m looking for on the internet (Google)
• What email I’m sending and receiving (GMail)
• Who I’m talking to via IM (GTalk) and telephone (Grand Central)
• Who visits my websites (Google Analytics)
• How much my websites make (Google AdSense)
• What I like to read (Google Reader)
• Where I like to go (Google Maps/Local)
• My documents and spreadsheets (Google Office)
• What type of files I have (Google Storage or GDrive)

Am I O.K. with Google knowing so much about me? I’m never easy about having anyone or anything know too much about me. Anyone that knows me will tell you I’m against anything the government does to ‘database’ information about me or anyone else for that matter.

I simply don’t trust anyone with too much information. But this isn’t big brother, nobody is forcing me to give Google so much information about myself. I’m giving up this information voluntarily so that I can use a generally superior product, usually free of charge.

Up until this point Google has not given me a reason to NOT trust them. And I don’t suppose they’ll give me a good reason anytime soon since their underlying business depends on their users trusting them with vital information about themselves. So if Google ever decides to get evil with my information, I will simply stop using their services — as will most other users — so there isn’t really any ‘incentives’ for Google to do anything devious with my information.

Google’s really on a quest to know and understand all of the world’s information. And since Futurama is coming back today, I will compare Google to the brains as seen in the episode from season 3 of the great show titled The Day the Earth Stood Stupid where brains come to earth in a quest to garner all of the known knowledge in the universe. That folks, is Google.

Note: In that episodes the brains want to get all the information and then destroy the Universe. Don’t read too far into it, I don’t think Google wants to destroy the Universe, let alone the Internet.

One of my all-time favorite cartoons. Futurama, is coming back tomorrow in the form of a DVD movie.

They’re scheduled to release 4 DVD movies to be broken up into 16 episodes to air in 2008 on Comedy Central. I like Futurama because they really work hard at making you laugh, they don’t go for the easy jokes and I appreciate that type of comedy.

Check out this interview with David Cohen, the Executive Producer of the show.

Technorati has really become useless as of late. They used to be the blogging hub, but nowadays they serve no purpose.

This really puts the nail in the coffin for me. I browsed over to Technorat, as I usually do one a week but more like once a month lately, and check out what’s popular.

The top search on Technorati is for youtube.

This sparks my interest, I wonder what all the buzz about YouTube is — so I click on the link to search for youtube.

This is what I get:

‘There are no posts in English with some authority containing youtube‘

You’ve got to be kidding me… You guys tell me it’s the most popular search term in all the blogosphere and then you tell me you can’t find anyone blogging about it in English?

See ya Technorati, you’ve wasted the last 5 minutes of my time for good.