http://www.tinotopia.com/log/ Tino straightens you out on urban planning, education, customer service, culture, and nearly everything else. en-us http://www.tinotopia.com/log/archive/2006/06/02/tinotopia_moved.htm Notice! If you are reading this site through any kind of aggregator or feed reader, you should update your system to look for the Tinotopia Feed at http://tinotopia.com/wp/feed — as I have at long last decided to move away from Movable Type even at the expense of some disruption. I have redirects in place, but depending on your reader, these... http://www.tinotopia.com/log/archive/2006/01/24/the_problem_in_a_nutshell.htm MSNBC is running coverage of the passage of a new law in West Virginia, which requires the use of gadgets that will allow location of, and communication with, miners. Their headline for this story? ‘WV LAW MAKES MINING SAFER’ But of course it isn’t the law that makes anything safer: it’s the gizmo. The law just requires use of the... http://www.tinotopia.com/log/archive/2006/01/12/iphoto_sucks_less.htm Or maybe it doesn’t suck at all. It certainly doesn’t crash all the time any more:... http://www.tinotopia.com/log/archive/2006/01/10/achtung_babies.htm Lancaster, TX schoolkids can't remember anything they've learned for more than three weeks -- according to the school system's superintendent. http://www.tinotopia.com/log/archive/2006/01/06/washington_post_search_still_sucks.htm The Washington Post website's search feature is entirely useless much of the time. http://www.tinotopia.com/log/archive/2005/12/29/iphoto_sucks.htm I am so sick of this. I’ve explored all the reasonable alternatives, and found none of them to be reasonable: I don’t think I’ve actually been able to quit iPhoto normally for a few months now. It manages to lock up before I’m done with it 100% of the time now.... http://www.tinotopia.com/log/archive/2005/12/27/dangers_of_meth_labs.htm St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Police say they weren’t shocked to learn that a recent apartment blaze that killed two people in Jefferson County was sparked by a failed attempt to make methamphetamine. In fact, drug investigators say they’re surprised more meth cooks haven’t died in fires. […] It’s precision work carried out with imprecise equipment and by people with little knowledge... http://www.tinotopia.com/log/archive/2005/12/26/protecting_us_from_ourselves_part_943.htm Whoopi Goldberg's disclaimer on the new Looney Tunes collection gets Tino thinking about the Root Cause of everything that annoys him. http://www.tinotopia.com/log/archive/2005/12/25/christmas_successfully_brought_off.htm It took an unbelievable amount of toil and expenditure, but in a week we have managed to convert this house from a wreck full of horrible junk into something suitable for Christmas, if only barely. Note the Domo in the tree. The Christmas haul: entirely books for Tino, in part because some presents are probably waiting for us on the... http://www.tinotopia.com/log/archive/2005/12/20/chop_chop_dig_dig.htm A life of unending toil. http://www.tinotopia.com/log/archive/2005/12/14/hooker_doll.htm Available at K-Mart. http://www.tinotopia.com/log/archive/2005/12/11/winer_moderates_himself.htm Classic Dave Winer http://www.tinotopia.com/log/archive/2005/12/11/washington_post_reporters_dont_like_feedback.htm Washington Post reporters do not 'appreciate' Technorati links on the Post website. http://www.tinotopia.com/log/archive/2005/12/11/the_washington_post_website_sucks.htm It takes six attempts to find the web version of a column I read in the paper this morning. http://www.tinotopia.com/log/archive/2005/12/10/sleek.htm Ladies and gentlemen, this is what fashion has come to. From page 47 of this month’s Lucky magazine: Sleek, ladies and gentlemen, apparently involves wearing an ill-fitting, wrinkly jacket and pants that you stole from a hobo. I do not think it’s possible to look sleek while at the same time appearing to have no feet at all. Nicole subscribes...