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After several offers from many sources, Google finally closed the deal yesterday.

Google has agreed to purchase popular video sharing site YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock, the two companies announced after the close of the stock market Monday. The deal marks the largest acquisition for Google in the company’s eight-year history.

I’m afraid that this acquisition will be just a merger with Google Video and YouTube will lose its unique user experience. Hopefully this won’t happen:

YouTube will retain its brand name and offices in San Bruno, Calif., the companies said, and all YouTube employees will keep their jobs. The acquisition is expected to close before the end of the year.

Source: BetaNews

Are you getting the following error from the W3C validator?

cannot generate system identifier for general entity “PHPSESSID”

This is because you are using sessions on your website and PHP adds the session ID to links on your page. If the URL already has a GET parameter, &PHPSESSID is added at the end. However, the correct code would be &PHPSESSID since for the validator the ampersand means that you are refering to a HTML entity. A quick way to fix this is to turn on the option arg_separator.output in php.ini. If you don’t have access to that file, you can use the following directive in a .htaccess file:

php_value arg_separator.output "&"

Advanced Micro Devices plans to acquire graphics chipmaker ATI Technologies for $5.4 billion, a move intended to increase AMD’s mobile-computing and consumer electronics capabilities, and help battle archrival Intel.

Source: ZDNet

What’s next? Intel buying nVidia?

3 days left for the end of another semester in Software Engineering! Tuesday is the last day! Who wants to go out? I need to celebrate it somehow! :D

Then 2 weeks later I have my finals:

April 24: POLZ 202 – Introduction to Political Science
April 25: COMP 335 – Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science
April 25: ENGR 301 – Engineering Management Principles and Economics
May 3: ENGR 391 – Numerical Methods in Engineering

And on May 8 I’ll be working fulltime! Yay I can’t wait!

This semester I am still working three days a week and studying the other two days. Here are my courses:

• ELEC 353 – Basic Electromagnetics and Transmission Line Theory
• ELEC 261 – Complex Variables for Electrical and Computer Engineers

As far as the site is concerned, I have changed a little bit the layout of the main page by putting “Random Thought” below “Poll”. I also added a new poll, so please cast your vote!

Take care and see you in the next update!
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