This is functionally identical to how you can solve real physical mazes. Put your right hand on the wall to your right as you enter the maze, and keep it there as you follow it through to the exit.

Essentially, in both examples, you are splitting the maze in two. The entrance and exit divide the maze into two different wals that never touch each other. The line that divides the two walls is the shortest distance from the entrance to the exit.

However, both of these methods will only work on the simplest form of maze, that is a maze that has a single entrance and a single exit, each on the outside of the maze.

Many mazes, particularly of the physical variety, have one, or more, goals to be reached in the centre of the maze (often before reaching the final external exit). This method will not necessarily take you to a central goal, and in the case of multiple such goals, is almost guarantees you won't reach them all.

Another type of maze might be one with multiple exits. If only one is the correct exit, this method is not guaranteed to take you there, and if the designer of the maze is smart, this method will definitely not take you there.

The perfect gift for that special someone in your life who has miles of empty shelf space and only owns ten CDs.

Wow, I never thought anyone would actually follow the link to my Livejournal.

Thanks for visiting my little corner of the blogosphere.

Here's the thing:

The Salvation Army is NOT a charity, it is a CHURCH.

There is no separation between the Salvation Army religious sect & the charitable organisation.

They operate in much the same way as the Mormons or the Jehovah's Witnesses - they give charity to the needy but use it as a cover to hock their religious beliefs.

If the story had been about the Mormons or the JW's squeezing money from another charity, no-one would have been surprised. But, for some unknown reason, the Salvation Army seems to have built up a veneer of respectability.

Hopefully people might now take notice and start to see the Salvo's for what they really are.

Oh, yes please.

Thanks very much for your time, and I love the blog!

My sick mind went:

"Any image? How about goatse?"

Surely it's more like 8 inches tall (have a look at the picture, 4 inches on that tape goes from the middle of the front leg up to the eyeball).

It's probably 4 inches from its belly to the middle of its back.

Still tiny, though.

Isn't that just a less permanent version of something like Tinypic?