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Sunday 25 December 2005 : Christmas Successfully Brought Off
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...
Thursday 04 August 2005 : WTF
That’s it; despite upgrading to the latest version of the anti-comment-spam software, and despite explicitly putting the word ‘poker’ in the blacklist, and despite having deleted and blacklisted hundreds of comments about online poker in the last 24 hours, I’m still getting comment spams about online poker. I am shutting down comments until I have time to upgrade Tinotopia to...
Thursday 04 August 2005 : Good Lord
So I turn the comments back on for about two minutes, and already there are a bunch of spam comments from the pig enthusiasts mentioned below. Like all websites with comments facilities, I’ve been the victim of comment spam before: but never with this kind of volume. I suppose I was hoping that their comment spammer would time out on...
Wednesday 03 August 2005 : Comments Temporarily Closed
Some pigfuckers are banging away with about ten comments a minute on the subject of online poker websites, and I’m too busy to screw around with it right now. I’ll turn comments back on later....
Tuesday 30 November 2004 : Back At Tino Manor
Tino is battered from an overnight train journey in the wrong compartment. Some train pictures substitute for the wit he's too achy to dish up.
Thursday 04 November 2004 : Software Upgrade & Flickr
Tino sticks a toe into the Flickr pool. Also a software upgrade.
Thursday 21 October 2004 : Panera Proxy
Tino gets Tinotopia to be visible at Panera. Their filter is actually more robust than he would have bothered to make it, had he been put in charge.
Tuesday 14 September 2004 : Tino Has A Cold
I've got a cold as a result of having my head blown on all night by a Holiday Inn air conditioner somewhere in Pennsylvania. Cheap hotels have long used these nasty through-the-wall air conditioners, but a new and special feature of the ones in this particular Holiday Inn is that you can't aim the air flow; it just goes...
Tuesday 10 August 2004 : New Tinotopia Feeds
Several new RSS feeds are now available at Tinotopia.com.
Friday 16 July 2004 : So I’m Lazy
It’s summer, so Tino hasn’t got much to say.
Sunday 23 May 2004 : In The Suburbs
A new photo gallery, on the subject of bad suburban planning, has been added to Tinotopia.
Tuesday 18 May 2004 : It’s All About the Benjamins
A photo gallery has been added to Tinotopia, and you are invited to help test it.
Friday 30 April 2004 : New phonecam feature
A new feature has been added to Tinotopia
Tuesday 27 April 2004 : Spring Has Arrived
The official indicator of spring at Stately Tino Manor has tripped.
Monday 19 April 2004 : Back at Tino Manor
I have been out of town for a week, and as I’ve been busy nothing’s been written here. Give me a few more days and something should appear....
Thursday 25 December 2003 : Merry Christmas
Regular complaining etc. will resume here before long....
Wednesday 01 October 2003 : More Slackage
I am in St. Louis again this week, and again too busy to write much. I'll try to post some one-line mini-rants some time this week, and pictures. Somewhere over Illinois...
Tuesday 12 August 2003 : Tinotopia on ‘Vacation’
Tino has been away from Tino HQ for a week, and he's leaving for about another week starting tomorrow. While we are not promising that the next week will be free of updates, it's likely that nothing much will be written until at least Sunday, 17 August....
Monday 05 May 2003 : E-mail Addresses In Comments
It's now possible to obfuscate your e-mail address in comments left on Tinotopia.
Monday 24 March 2003 : Not Dead Yet
Tino has been busy with other things for the past couple of weeks. Don't fear, though, he'll soon be back with loads more complaining for your benefit....
Thursday 02 January 2003 : The Trouble I’ve Seen
Tino's car breaks down in Ohio, and has to be towed 40 miles to a BMW dealer.
Sunday 15 December 2002 : Disaster!
Big trees fall in Tino's front yard following an ice storm.
Tuesday 03 December 2002 : Back from Vacation
I'm back from vacation, and should start offering my usual complaining here again soon. Domo says: It's cold in the mountains!...
Wednesday 06 November 2002 : Software Upgrade
We at Tinotopia have recently upgraded the software that runs the weblog, in addition to making a number of look-and-feel changes here. The weblog should now look much more like the rest of the site. It should be easier to use, and it should work better for those of you who are using web browsers whose CSS implementations are broken....
Tuesday 29 October 2002 : Busy, busy, busy
My little car has been yet more trouble, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Of course, the Jeep is making wheel-bearing noises, and the windshield wipers on two separate vehicles are now either not working or working in some funky way, and it's cold and rainy and there are wolves after me. I promise...
Wednesday 09 October 2002 : Silence
So I have once again neglected this for so long that the right-hand column wraps around most unprettily. I apologize, but I have been busy. The Austin blew a head gasket, for one thing. I have a screed all planned for tomorrow; it should appear in the afternoon unless something comes up....
Thursday 25 July 2002 : Spam Filter
The spam has got completely out of hand around here. As a result, I've been testing a new spam-trap. It uses Perl and Mail::Audit to 'read' incoming messages, so to speak, and to check for certain dead giveaways that the message might be spam. Legitimate e-mail never, for instance, confuses the e-mail address with the name (e.g. Dear tino@tinotopia.com, ...)...
Saturday 22 June 2002 : Summertime
So I've had a few comments that I'm not writing much here lately. It's summer, and I'm taking it easy and doing other things. Recently, I fixed my TV reception by installing a larger antenna, a process I've written about here. I have a few complaints and comments about other things that should be up here in the next week...
Monday 08 April 2002 : Domo Buying Guide
Yes, I know, there hasn't been anything new here for a while. I've been busy beating my head against computers. When the Tino Unified Media Player is working, you'll be able to see what I've been up to. I'm afraid it will be fairly anticlimactic. I have also put together a Domokun Buying Guide to help answer the questions that...
Monday 25 March 2002 : New gadget
My new wireless gadget has arrived. You can now send AOL instant messages to my pocket using the screen name mobiletino. Send mail to beep-tino@tinotopia.com and they should also reach me....
Wednesday 20 March 2002 : Tino’s Sort-Of Smart House
Educating My House I certainly wouldn’t call my house a smart house in any real sense of the phrase. I’m working on educating it, though. At the moment, my real attention is all directed toward the whole-house A/V system. The immediate goal is to have a system that’s controllable and viewable/listenable from any room in the house. Read the rest...
Thursday 28 February 2002 : ‘Lost’ log entries
Because of an error by a sub-editor here at Tinotopia, a number of log entries written over the past few weeks were never made public. These are: Wham! Pow! Crash! Zot! The true dangers of cartoon violence, and media violence in general Corporate Naming Rights What’s wrong with selling naming rights to things. Music Industry Headed Down the Tubes Title...
Tuesday 05 February 2002 : Minor Tinotopia Update
A couple new things have been added to the Tinotopia site: Best Western Marina Hotel & Conference Center - A hotel review, with pictures. More Random Photos - Only three at the moment, but I’m searching for more photos of interest. There have additionally been several minor updates and corrections throughout the site....
Friday 18 January 2002 : Notification List
If you wish to be notified when the Tino Log is updated, send mail to Tino and he’ll add you to the list. This may be particularly useful when the log isn’t being updated all that often (e.g. this week)....
Thursday 10 January 2002 : Tinotopia Log moves to Movable Type
A publishing system switch means better service for you, the reader.
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