Official Ticketmaster site. Bob Dylan tickets TD Waterhouse Centre Orlando, FL, Directions, seating chart.

Official Ticketmaster site. Bob Dylan tickets TD Waterhouse Centre Orlando, FL, Directions, seating chart.

Bermuda Info

An informative website, with good info, linked to and by The Royal Gazette, Bermuda's only daily newspaper.

Bermuda Online in 120+ comprehensive websites

All About Bermuda

bermudatourism.com - The Official Site of the Bermuda Department of Tourism

It's Bermuda!

We have booked our 20th anniversary trip to Bermuda.

Thanks to American Express Rewards points and Delta Skymiles it will be cheap!

We are staying at the lovely Fairmont Hamiltion Princess hotel. While there we intend to snorkel, scuba, take a glass bottom boat ride and head to the Beach Club a time or two.

We last went to Bermuda in 1985 and are looking forward to our return visit.

Top Ten Caribbean Dive Sites, Carribean, Carribbean, Best Diving

Top Ten Caribbean Dive Sites, Carribean, Carribbean, Best Diving

TCI Diving is based in the Turks & Caicos, but lists their favorites throughout the Caribbean. The Caymans, Cozumel and BVI are recurring destinations in many lists.

2005 Annual Reader's Poll Best of Winners - Caribbean Travel & Life

Scroll down to "Best Dive Sites"
2005 Annual Reader's Poll Best of Winners - Caribbean Travel & Life

Crunching The Numbers On Alternative Fuels

Popular Mechanics - Crunching The Numbers On Alternative Fuels

Rising oil prices are leading skeptics to take another look at formerly ignored alternative automotive fuels. Ethanol is getting the most attention--but interest is growing in methanol and even leftover french fry oil for use in diesel engines. In addition to these biofuels, research continues into electricity and natural gas as vehicle power sources. Department of Energy (DOE) policy calls for eventually making a transition to a hydrogen-based economy. And President Bush has recently stated that he wants hydrogen-powered cars on the market by 2020.

Windows Security

After fighting with Norton Internet Security for a few years I'm giving up and starting to experiment. Norton is simply a piece of crap -- it hogs way too many resources and slows down the computer. On top of that, Betsy's annual subscription keeps coming up asking to be renewed every 60 days which is about ten months short of my calendar year. So here is what I'm going to try:

AVG Anti Virus Free Edition

Kerio Firewall which is also free in a limited capacity

Microsoft Defender Beta 2 which replaces Microsoft Anti Spyware Beta 1

Torpedo Away

ENEMY WEAPON: Russian VA-111 Shkval

Good read on U.S. sub capabilities and the real vs. perceived threat of the new Iranian super torpedo.

Dive St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands with Admiralty Dive Center, PADI & NAUI instruction, Nitrox certifications

Dive St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands with Admiralty Dive Center, PADI & NAUI instruction, Nitrox certifications

Map Gallery of Religion in the United States

Map Gallery of Religion in the United States

AlGore Out to Save the World

New York Daily News - News & Views Columnists - Richard Cohen: Gore movie puts heat on Bush

Richard Cohen, who has a high school education and later attended three different colleges has this to say about GW:

Bush has been studiously anti-science, a man of applied ignorance who has undernourished his mind with the empty calories of comfy dogma. For instance, his insistence on abstinence as the preferred method of birth control would be laughable were it not so reckless.

Whereas, in his unbiased opionion he says about AlGore:

Wherever he goes, he finds time and an audience to deliver his (free) lecture on global warming. It and the film leave no doubt of the peril we face and neither do they leave any doubt that Gore, at last, is a man at home in his role. He is master teacher, pedagogue, know-it-all, smarter than most of us,

Speak for yourself, please, Mr. Cohen. Yawn. How boring.

PADI Openwater SCUBA Cert

Certification course at a nice resort - classes Mon - Thurs.
Divi Tiara Beach Resort Cayman Brac Activities

Life in the Green Lane

Life in the Green Lane - New York Times

The car that started the hybrid craze, the Toyota Prius, is lauded for squeezing 40 or more miles out of a gallon of gas, and it really can. But only when it's being driven around town, where its electric motor does its best and most active work. On a cross-country excursion in a Prius, the staff of Automobile Magazine discovered mileage plummeted on the Interstate. In fact, the car's computer, which controls the engine and the motor, allowing them to run together or separately, was programmed to direct the Prius to spend most of its highway time running on gasoline because at higher speeds the batteries quickly get exhausted. Indeed, the gasoline engine worked so hard that we calculated we might have used less fuel on our journey if we had been driving Toyota's conventionally powered, similarly sized Corolla — which costs thousands less. For the owner who does the majority of her driving on the highway, the Prius's potential for fuel economy will never be realized and its price premium never recovered.

Low Key Watersports and SCUBA Dive Center, U.S.Virgin Islands (USVI)

Low Key Watersports and SCUBA Dive Center, U.S.Virgin Islands (USVI)

Advice from Steve is Low Key in U.S. Virgin Islands is a good diving paradise with good lessons. Here is the first link I came across.

Why We Fear the Canadians

Damn Interesting » America's Secret Plan to Invade Canada:

"As for the Canadians, they had their own plan outlining the invasion of the United States. Developed in 1921, it was called 'Defense Scheme Number One,' and it called for Canadian soldiers to march on Albany, Minneapolis, Seattle and Great Falls, Montana. They were well aware that they lacked the military strength to defeat the U.S., so the thrust of the plan was to buy time for the British to arrive and help their commonwealth ally.

The department in Canada responsible for war planning had an annual budget of just $1,200. During the clandestine information-gathering for Defense Scheme Number One, staff members of the department actually entered the United States to take photographs and to procure free maps at gas stations."

Who ever thought AAA would be complicit in the overthrow of the U.S.?

Some things apparently never change. Minneapolis and Seattle probably would have surrendered, but I'm pretty sure Great Falls and Albany would have driven the Canadian "Army" back to the border.

Good News!

Whoo Hoo!

Welcome to Google Calendar

Welcome to Google Calendar

Google Calendar is up and running. I set up accounts for everyone and we can see each others calendars from any website access.

MONEY Magazine: Best Jobs in America

MONEY Magazine: Best Jobs in America

List of 10 best jobs in America includes Real Estate appraiser

Firefox Tweaks, Extensions and Optimizations

Firefox Tweaks, Extensions and Optimizations at Gomeler.com

Nice set of instructions for increasing speeds and reducing memory leaks from within Firefox.

Also has links to a few nice extensions related to using tabs.

Dog and Kennel Magazine Labrador Retriever Breed Profile

Dog and Kennel Magazine Labrador Retriever Breed Profile:

"Epilepsy in dogs is characterized by seizures. If they are short and infrequent, a dog may not need anticonvulsant medication. If the seizures are more severe, a dog is a candidate for a lifetime supply of phenobarbital, Valium or some other drug used to prevent seizures.

Progressive retinal atrophy (PRA) is the wasting away of the vessels in the retina. Initially manifested as night blindness in young dogs, as PRA progresses, its victims become totally blind."

Seizures in Dogs & Cats: An Integrative Approach with Natural Options

Seizures in Dogs & Cats: An Integrative Approach with Natural Options:

"Dr. Roger Clemmons at the University of Florida veterinary school suggests that interceptor and filaribits appear to be safer heart worm preventatives for dogs that are prone to seizures. He also feels that Frontline may be a safer flea and tick repellant for seizure prone dogs."

Last minute diversion takes Mars rover to safety

New Scientist SPACE - Breaking News - Last minute diversion takes Mars rover to safety

Spirit has to be more careful about the terrain it tackles than in the past, thanks to a non-functioning right front wheel. The motor that rotates the wheel stopped working in mid-March, so the rover has been driving backwards, dragging the wheel behind it.

Spirit reached Low Ridge Haven over the weekend and as a result, the rover's power supply has been bumped up by as much as 20%, Squyres says. Science observations are just getting underway at the new site, but he says there are some "wonderful, finely-layered bedrock outcrops" there and it is likely the rover will remain there for the entire winter science campaign.

There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998

Call Al Gore!

There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998

Anaheims Libertarian Growth Policies

OpinionJournal - Cross Country

Mercedes GL is too big, too bad - Orlando Sentinel : Cars

Dan Neill thinks owning an SUV is morally retrograde (whatever that may mean) and that it's a bad thing for a corporation to make money. HUH?

01:02:03 04/05/06

On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be:

01:02:03 04/05/06.

That won't ever happen again