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Several months ago, Google announced that its mapping system would provide directions for not only cars, but for trains and community bus systems as well. Apparently, they’ve also added certain forms of watercraft. Click here for Google Maps’ directions from Seattle to Honolulu. But be careful: they forgot to add the instruction for donning your life vest.

The Honolulu to Tokyo run provides similar feedback, but travelers heading to England from New York are out of luck. If you find additional routes like these, attach them as comments here.

Any church started by King Henry VIII is bound to have some humor in it. And the following video by Alpha, a Christian ministry started by Anglican priest Nicky Gumbel, is definitely funny. The video was designed to show in movie theaters during the previews, and lasts about a minute. Here’s a link to the [...]

Portable electronics like laptops and cellphones are great as long as the batteries stay charged. If you’re tired of the short battery life you’re getting out of your mobile devices, there is something you can do about it: read my latest article. I’ve just posted an article on the latest in battery technology. To read [...]

If you’re looking for a review of my latest book, Programming Visual Basic 2008, that has that “we report, you decide” feeling all over it, head on over to the Visual Basic area at about.com (“a New York Times company”). http://visualbasic.about.com/od/vbnetbeginnerbooks/fr/PA9780596518431.htm Dan Mabbutt is the Visual Basic expert on that site, and regularly posts interesting [...]

My latest software development book, Programming Visual Basic 2008, is now available at better bookstores everywhere. If you don’t have one of those better bookstores in your neighborhood, you can also purchase the book online, from Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, or other resellers of general and technical books. Programming Visual Basic 2008 by Tim Patrick [...]

There Is A God: How the world’s most notorious atheist changed his mind by Antony Flew To buy this book from amazon.com, click here. Today’s atheists and Christians seem to rub each other the wrong way. Whether it’s a “new atheist” like Sam Harris or Richard Dawkins dumping on believers, or a James Dobson type [...]

Disneyland is known as the “Happiest Place on Earth,” and people come from all over the world to have their childhood dreams fulfilled. I love going to Disneyland. My son and I have annual passes, and we go at least once a month. But as is true in so many areas of life, the fulfillment [...]