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Yesterday was my first and only day for being able to go to my church back in the Bay Area. I found that after lunch, it has become a tradition for the high school and college aged students to head over to the park to play a bit of friendly volleyball with the English pastor. Being my first time back in awhile, I just follow everyone to the park. To my amazement, the park was bustling with people from all walks of life. It ranged from people out to simply enjoy the warm rays of the sun, to another volleyball court set up in the grass, to elderly Asians getting their daily exercise with handheld drums. The park was nothing but a large section of green grass surrounded by some bushes and trees along the perimeter of the park. In the middle was a statue of Benjamin Franklin. After setting up our volleyball court, our group of about 25 ended up playing for about four hours. During the duration of four hours, six completely random stranger asked and joined us. Many others simply stood aside and observed us having fun. It was truly a great experience being in such an open minded environment where strangers are not afraid to talk and join activities with others.

The public parks in San Francisco (big city) compare nothing to the parks in Irvine (suburbs). Irvine parks are generally smaller, but having expensive play structures for kids. On the other hand, parks in San Francisco are larger, but more plain with simply a green field. However, the park in the city are more packed with activity. The parks in Irvine are unfortunately generally empty. If you are ever in a city and pass by a crowded fun park, be sure to check it out.

If you are one of the many people out there who have problems logging in (stuck at validating) to your account using AOL's new chatting software codenamed Triton, there is finally a fix available! Direct your browser to the official AIM Triton Beta Test site. The question that has the solution is called "Q: I am hanging at the validating stage during the sign on process, what should I do?". This directs you to a link of a .reg file which will make some safe changes to your operating systems registry. Once this is done, restart AIM Triton and you should be able to seamlessly log in! This has worked for me, how has it worked for you?

The million dollar question is which type of queue line at a retail store has the best overall benefits? The single queue line or the multi queue line? My personal opinion was that single queue lines are more efficient, but probably less fair. However, my roommate strongly believes the multi queue line is more efficient. Which one seems more fair in the long run of a day, or even a week?

My theory is that because the single queue line does not connect directly to the cashier, the time it takes a customer to physically walk from the front of the queue line to a cashier is what makes the single queue line inefficient. Sure the walk is short if the cashier is located right in front, but anything further is wasting time. At Best Buy, we observed that it took a customer roughly seven seconds to walk from the start of the line to the furthest cashier. This may not seem like much of a difference, but over the course of a whole day, much time is wasted. In the case of a multi queue line, each line already connects, so the time between customers at each line is very short. For this reason, I believe the multi queue line to be more efficient, but less fair.

AIM Trition has come a long way since the first beta version was released. Before, Triton was slow, bloated, and took forever to load which is why many people switched back to AIM Classical 5.9 version. Now, Triton runs much faster and smoother. Odds are that the Triton developers realized the problem and toned down many of the graphical features to meet user needs. One simple, yet amazingly powerful change is that the install process no longer forces you to install the AOL Browser, reset your homepage, or sign up with Plaxo. The Mail, Mobile, Talk, and Transfer features all work. They also have plugins, although they have not been fully tested, for you to use with Triton to provide further functionality. Click here to check out all the free AIM Plugins. I currently have a plugin installed that updates the song in my profile automatically as it plays in Winamp. Additionally, they have a plugin that logs your chats automatically. As usual, all the chat windows are now tabbed into a single window. If you haven't checked out Triton in awhile, now is the time to give it another shot! Go to AIM.com and download the latest version!

Now that college is over, I have more time to do activities I really want to do. One important activity includes learning to cook healthy food and to avoid purchasing fast food for every meal. I am slowly beginning to understand how my health is more important than education. If I spend the past four years of my life studiously behind a book, and dedicate only little time for consuming healthy food, I may spend the rest of my life trying to repair the damages of eating unhealthy food. But this makes me wonder why I did not realize this as a freshman at UCI. The bottom line is that I just did not have the facts. I was not interested! As part of my curriculum, I took a health class to satisfy the breadth requirement. I realized that Bio 9a (Nutritional Science) was the class that I absorbed the most useful information that will directly impact my life the most. Did you know that your bones will stop increasing their stores of calcium in your mid 20s? After that, it remains steady before it begins to deteriorate. But why am I learning this helpful information when I'm 22? I strongly believe that students should be taught more about their health at a younger age. This way, kids will understand to avoid bad foods like soda, chips, candy, etc.

My computer was recently infected with a whole variety of spyware and trojans. After hours of Googling questionable application running and visible from the Task Manager, I was able to manually remove all but one last hidden Trojan. However, this last piece was the most frustrating bit due to the fact that whenever I restart my computer, it would download more spyware. So I more thoroughly searched forums and came across a highly praised program called ewido Anti-spyware program. It comes with a free 30 day trial and runs real time removing any detected spyware or Trojan. After a full scan and a restart, my computer has been running fully functionally. If you are having problems removing spyware or trojans, I would highly recommend downloading the fully functional trial version to check for and fix if necessary problems on your computer. It has a great easy to use interface and automatically updates the signatures without bothering you, the user. As of today, it costs $29.95 for a years worth of updates.