Why can't Google understand that I simply do not want to broadcast my searches to the world? I have been trusting Google with that information. If they want to use my click-throughs as part of their search algorithms, that's fine. But why do they want me to attach my name to it? Google keeps trying to go social and that goes against all the trust we put in Google's privacy policies.

Well, I'm mad at the people who took the profile names I wanted on Twitter and Facebook. There can be only one "Sharon" on those two sites and it's not me. It doesn't have to be the distant future we're talking about. Even now, every year new people join the internet and all the nice plain names on the big sites are taken.

Google doesn't work backwards. If you've been on Wave yet, you can tell that this is the way they want to go with group discussions.

I keep thinking that the people of the future will be mad at us for taking up all the good usernames, domains, and email addresses.

I'm a recent convert to Google Chrome. Now that I see the ads, I don't even know why I've been blocking them. Most of the sites I visit have sufficiently discreet ads which are not annoying at all. In fact, I barely even notice them. (Does Slashdot even have ads? Sorry! I forgot to look.) Adblockers are great for preventing our mothers and grandmothers from clicking on ads we know they shouldn't click. Other than that, I think it's important that we support internet businesses by loading and viewing their ads. It's the least we can do.