January 2010
14 posts
So many people are being so careful.
I think that means I don’t have to.
The Times published a story about the increased effort to educate well-meaning people who send the wrong things in times of crisis.
Teaching Americans What Haiti Needs
Every aid worker has a favorite story about useless donations. Raymond Offenheiser, the president of Oxfam America, the United States branch of the British relief group, recalled being in Bangladesh after a cyclone had killed...
How to Outsmart San Francisco's Parking...
I respect the City’s need to maintain order and collect revenue. Nevertheless, the first parking ticket I received from those bicycle-helmeted rascals was tantamount to a declaration of war.
I’ve developed the following guerrilla tactics for ticket-free parking in San Francisco:
Pick your battles. You’ll never win against a tow-away zone. That’s a parking enforcement...
