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Well, it's been pretty quiet on this website and for good reason too, I just did a lot of school work and I'm finally done!

So my cousin got bored today and came up with this interesting thought experiment which is quite interesting. The question is: what do you think is the cutest word you've heard?

Rules:

• Must be in the dictionary
• Must be in English
• No slang, must be in formal English

Ah, so it's time for the notorious April Fools prank. As always, I love seeing what Google has come up with. There are lots including putting Easter Eggs everywhere, changing Google Maps, and offering farfetched services. However, that's not what I'm talking about here. It's something that most people won't notice ... what is it you ask?

Seems like AMD and Intel are going mad with their multicore offerings which are now starting to creep into the many-core category. Intel has already released their Intel Core i7 980X and its chief rival AMD is set to release its set of hexacores next month. With all this multicore frenzy, one must question, is it becoming too much?

Young Artists for Haiti is a band of Canadian singers who have come together for a single mission. To create more awareness in order to help rebuild Haiti. Haiti has been ravaged by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake on January 12 2010 with over 230,000 people dead and most cities fall to ruins.

Young Artists for Haiti consists of:

As I posted a few days ago, apparently it's true! Valve's award-winning and ultra popular STEAM platform is heading to the Mac platform in April. This is indeed great news for those who own a Mac (myself included).

There has been a lot of buzz lately about Valve's intentions lately as many gaming websites have been lit up about having MacOS X support for Valve's award winning STEAM platform.

This whole fiasco happened during the launch of the new beta STEAM UI update. Some of the things that caught people's attention were the fact that:

Windows 7 probably generated the most widely used release candidates ever used by people around the world. This is evident since many people still run the RC versions instead of jumping on the retail versions.

What seems to be a long delayed launch, NVIDIA is finally launching their long anticipated hardware featuring the much talked about Fermi architecture this March during PAX East during March 26, 2010. So what's taking NVIDIA so long?

February 12th, 2010 marks the beginning of the 2010 Winter Olympics game held by Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. As a Canadian, I'm definitely proud of this moment. Although, I did wish I had a cup of Tim Hortons hot chocolate with me to celebrate this occasion. Unfortunately, that desire wasn't fulfilled.