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I’ve been traveling the last 2 and a half wee ks in California, visiting four cities.  First I spent my time traveling throughout LA first staying outside of Hollywood (overrated). Then I moved over to Venice Beach and Santa Monica which was a much better area than Hollywood and Downtown LA.

Next I moved on to San Diego, taking a Greyhound Bus from downtown outside of Skid Row (a rather scary  place).  After arriving in San Diego I stayed on Pacific Beach in a hostel that was right on the beach.  Here the weather was great all day long and people just seemed to drink beer, get a tan, and just party all day long.

Finally I met up with a few fellows from San Diego and rented a car with them, traveling up the coast.  Our first stop was in Santa Barbara.

The best view of all comes from the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge.

Currently in San Francisco, the weather is cold at night and okay during the day.  The cable cars and the style of buildings makes San Francisco unique compared to most American cities.

My next stop? I’m considering some time in Seattle and Vancouver.

One place you often can not blog is both while in class and during your work time.  Updating your blog during your work period and class can often result in some quite serious consqueunces, like being fired or smething as simple as getting yelled at by the professor.

How I Used to Blog at Class and Work
During class, I found that the best way to blog was opening up a text file and simply tping there.  It makes it seem as if you are really typing notes, whereas you are really gettig your blog typed up.  Sometimes I even mix in my blogging with my actual reports, so if anyon took  quick glance at my work, it would seem ordinary.

The main point is to disguise your blogging to the point where it looks as if you are working hard.

I recently have been getting a virus that keeps blocking google, redirecting it to 0.0.0.0.0 as well as a number of anti virus websites like mcaffe.com.  The solution to beating this virus is actually quite easy and requires only a couple of free programs.

To stop your browser from redirecting and blocking Google you need to delete a file.  Browse to c:windows\system32\drivers\etc and delete hosts file.  This file is what is setup to redirect all the websites to 0.0.0.o.0.

However this file will continue to be created everytime you restart your computer until you fully remove the entire virus. One of the programs I’ve  been using to remove the virus  is SpyBot search and destroy. This program is free and lets me know everytime a virus trys to insert itself into my system registry.

Get Spybot via this link