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Found satellite images of Haiti after the earthquake through Gizmodo.  Even with all the technology we have, there is still a lot of work to do.  Even with various forms of powers of prediction, we still can’t prevent much.

THIS PHONE IS REAL.  So I’ve been following Gizmodo’s Liveblog of the android press event right now and they’ve finally gotten to the details I desperately wanted to hear about.  The phone ships TODAY.

So we haven’t done much recently.  At all.  We’ll try to get back to writing posts about the exciting things that are going to happen in 2010.  As a final note, I would like to mention that the way you should say “2010” is “twenty-ten.”  That is all. Thanks – hope everyone has a good [...]

I’m sure you all already heard, but Super Smash Bros. 64 has been released for the Wii.  You can download it for 1000 Wii points, which is equivalent to about 10 bucks.

So it’s certainly been a while!  Over 6 weeks really.  Wow – I’m a jerk for starting something and not seeing it through.  Well – that ends now.  School is over and I have absolutely no excuse to not update Chenzen again like I did in the past. 

Today we’re pleased to introduce the Pet Store for World of Warcraft, a new way for players to obtain in-game pets to join them on their adventures in Azeroth… So apparently on Wednesday of this week, WoW opened up their new online Pet Store for official business.  Players can now buy in-game pets online through [...]

So I’ve been seeing a lot of commercials for Verizon’s DROIDDOES recently.  Taking a look at it, it looks like the rumors of the Motorola Sholes going to Verizon were very true. 

I’m sure everyone already knows about, but the event is so big that I’m going to post it here anyway.  Windows 7 has finally officially been released today for the general public!  That means anyone can now purchase Windows 7 and begin using the glorified savior of the MS operating systems. 

Want to get Borderlands a little early and stay up a little late? …Basically, you now have only one excuse for not getting Borderlands tonight if you’re into the game and you’re in the US, and that is not wanting to go to GameStop and stand in line at midnight. Which is actually pretty reasonable.

So omg!ubuntu! has decided to give us a small peek on the current ChromeOS build from google.  A few things about ChromeOS that you may like to note are that it is debian-based and will be an OS that seamlessly stitches together the web-browser and OS.

So, as many of you know, Google Voice is currently invite only.  Until just recently, the invites had to be requested through Google Voice itself.  Well, if you have a friend who has an account and you were too lazy to sign up and wait for yours, it might not be long before you can [...]

So fall is finally here, and that means the fall lineup has finally been introduced.  Well, after watching a good amount of first episodes, I have to say that my expectations for this season are fairly bleak. 

So last weekend (the weekend of the 3rd), I had an extra few days off because of the phenomenon known as Pacing Break at Lehigh University.  Basically, I get a 4-day weekend after the first set of exams here.  Anyway, I took advantage of this long break and visited Danny all the way up in [...]

Are you worried about swine flu in your area (even though you really shouldn’t be)?  Then be worried no longer cause lifehacker has found a nice flutracking web app that gives you an easy to read overview of where there are outbreaks and whatnot. 

Earlier today, Verizon Wireless and Google announced that they were going to partner up!  Even better news is that before the end of this year, Verizon is planning to release two Android phones!

TechCrunch has noted today that google maps on the iPhone has recently incorporating ads and user-generated content.  I’m not very surprised about the ads, but the user-generated content does seem slightly odd.

(Skip if you’ve already read the first paragraph of one of the other ones) So the summer of 2009 has come to an end last week on Tuesday.  Well, what that brings is also the end to all of the summer seasons of anime that I have been watching.  I’m not going to lie, I [...]

(Skip if you’ve already read the first paragraph of one of the other ones) So the summer of 2009 has come to an end last week on Tuesday.  Well, what that brings is also the end to all of the summer seasons of anime that I have been watching.  I’m not going to lie, I [...]

(Skip if you’ve read this paragraph already)  So the summer of 2009 has come to an end last week on Tuesday.  Well, what that brings is also the end to all of the summer seasons of anime that I have been watching.  I’m not going to lie, I was pretty ambitious when I started the [...]

So I haven’t had any time lately due to school and just random events, but I am still trying to make an effort to log my life in pictures.  I am taking my camera with me everywhere now, which is good, but I still miss opportunities to just snap away when I should.  I did [...]

So when I was first entering college, I was under the impression that my grades would be determined by 1 or 2 tests in each class during the semester and nothing else.  Well – for some classes this is true, but, for the most part, your class work, homework, and the whatnot factor into your [...]

So lately I’ve been pretty busy – this week especially since I’ve been sick, tests are coming up, and I’ve gotten a healthy dose of X-Box live gaming.  One of my housemates has moved his X-box 360 downstairs to the living room, where we have a 52” HDTV setup. 

The founder of the infamous social networking site, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has released the statistic that Facebook has reached 300 million users worldwide.  And it doesn’t stop at that; they are also cash-flow positive now.

So apparently LG is going out on their own and has begun to produce the GW620: their very own Android running mobile device!  Unfortunately for us, US dwellers, it is only going to be released in Europe for the time being. 

With a superconducting magnet, scientists have been able to generate a field powerful enough to lift the water inside living animals.  The most amazing part is that the field can operate at room temperature! Researchers have setup a plastic cage that keeps the mice in during levitation.  The results so far seem to be pretty [...]

So, if you’re from the Touhou community, today was Cirno Day!  I assume that if you know what Cirno Day is, you already know why.  Here is a brief explanation for those of you who don’t know though!

So this caught my attention today because, quite frankly, I’ve hungering for a new phone and refuse the iPhone trend.  Not for any particular reason, other than just to satisfy my ego.  I am also highly dissatisfied with the selection of phones Verizon has to offer, but unfortunately I am stuck with this provider until [...]

So on Sunday, I decided to delve into the secret arts of baking Apple Pie.  I didn’t expect this to be difficult in the least, so I even took the plunge to try to make 2 of them.  Oh boy, did I fail epically.  Let’s see how and where I went wrong!

So apparently yesterday in Japan, there was some ad on YouTube saying that the release date would actually be announced today.  Some people were able to figure out how to manipulate the ad to actually display the date, and thus presented it yesterday leaked as December 17, 2009. 

So what’s really creating problems for Microsoft right now?  It’s the users who do not want to give up on their dated machines that are still running Windows XP.  With 71.8 percent of the market share still running XP, things look pretty bleak at the moment. 

Haha, the other day Danny linked me to a user movie on GameTrailers.  Needless to say, I enjoyed it enough to share it with the rest of the world (if you haven’t already seen it).  It’s called the ‘Anime Boob Jiggle Montage.’ 

So GameTrailers has released a trailer revealing BioShock 2’s multiplayer gameplay.  After watching the trailer though, I wasn’t thoroughly impressed with any of the aspects of it. 

So the manga series, To-Love-Ru (also pronounced, Trouble), has come to a close recently.  As it so happened, I was reading this series pretty faithfully, so I finished reading it soon after the last chapter was scanlated and released.  Now the big question though, why? 

So, Amazon has finally come out and taken a huge step in their fight against the Google Books settlement.  They have filed a brief with the U.S. District Court (of which you can read here).

So school life here at Lehigh University has started again.  This means classes have started, endless nights of parties have started (I have so much homework already), and (well at least for me) working has started again.