Tonight Bill Gates showed up at the Daily Show with John Stewart. This is definitely one of my top 3 shows. Who doesn’t love the whole Gates saga, right? Sure Gates doesn’t have the fanatic fandom of the head honcho of Apple, Inc. but he is no slouch in either the marketing department or a staggering product lineup. Whether it was Windows 3.1, 95, 98, (lets forget ME), XP and now Vista; Windows Mobile that has evidently licked Palm; Xbox that by it’s second version has (in my humble opinion) shown up the previous front-runner (Sony Blu-ray toting what?!); I wish I had more love for Zimbra, but its all about Exchange as far as I am concerned; and not even going to mention the Might Office. The list doesn’t end.

I remember seeing Gates launch the original Xbox at Times Square NYC, followed by the crazy mid-desert launch of 360. His coming out on the Daily Show with Stewart is another example that isn’t an old dog that can’t learn. Gates being whoever he is (and he isn’t the devil) does what he has to for his products. Sure, I now have a Mac (cause I love Aperture and Adobe Lightroom sucks) and my past 3 recommendations to friends buying new laptops/desktops has been OS X (Macbook and Mac Minis rock!). But I swear by their products, at least the ones I use, and somehow I imagine stat-to-stat Jobs wishes he was in Gates’ league.

Its pretty weird what happens sometimes when you are in a rush. Something that you do again and again and is second nature to you can be completely ignored. I was recently purchasing a new lens for my precious Pentax K100D - Pentax 50mm f/1.7 Manual and I couldn’t find the right deal. So I ended up bidding on and purchasing a Pentax 50mm f/2.0 M instead. Only in the rush to close the deal I didn’t realize that the person only accept money orders and my natural scam alert didn’t go off as well. I obviously am not going to be completing this transaction, rather get a negative than lose $65, right? But I did end up buying another 50mm f/1.7 M for now. Waiting with baited breath.

I am hoping to pick up my Nintendo Wii soon, pre-ordered from Future Shop. I am picking this up ‘for’ my 14 month old son. There have been so many Wii accidents being reported with the wire and what not, and YouTube is maxed out with those videos. This was a funny one.

Interesting stats from Orkut - majority from Brazil, then USA and then India. 18-25 single people seeking for friends makes up the biggest demographic.  Wonder how that compares to other social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace? I would think that countries like USA and Canada are bigger on them.

You can view them here.

I started watching all these RC Car racing and drifting videos on youtube and felt like a kid all over again. I am hooked. I need to get one of these again. Now that I have a son who understands what a car is, I think I may have just the excuse to order one of those cool ones from Korea.