http://www.baltimoresquirrels.com here squirrely, squirrely Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:50:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Enterprisy: A system that, with the right tools and considerable effort, can be made to do just about anything, but cannot do any one thing well, with any simplicity or with any elegance. Java and Windows are common examples of enterprisy systems. http://www.baltimoresquirrels.com/2008/09/13/one-definition-of-enterprisy/ Via Dark Roasted Blend http://www.baltimoresquirrels.com/2008/09/13/octolove/ From the WSJ But Gov. Palin’s claim comes with a serious caveat. She endorsed the multimillion dollar project during her gubernatorial race in 2006. And while she did take part in stopping the project after it became a national scandal, she did not return the federal money. She just allocated it ... http://www.baltimoresquirrels.com/2008/09/08/that-pesky-bridge-to-nowhere/ A reader response to the TPM story I just linked to: The McCain campaign wanted to frame this election on experience, but had to abandon that when the polls didn’t move. The surge issue has likewise attracted no great interest. Although McCain continues to discuss it, as a theme, he has ... http://www.baltimoresquirrels.com/2008/09/08/another-perspective/ Primal Scream Polls aside though, I continue to see a campaign in which the McCain camp has a consistent and aggressive message. They’re constantly on the attack and largely defining the debate. The Obama campaign is largely reactive, parrying the attacks — sometimes rapid response, sometimes slower response, but defined largely ... http://www.baltimoresquirrels.com/2008/09/08/primal-scream/ Two quick hacking projects today: A plugin for Ubiquity (which I mentioned previously) that allows you to interface with Todoist. At the moment you have to hand-code your account token and a project id from the Todoist site, but you can already create quick notes by typing todo reorganize office ... http://www.baltimoresquirrels.com/2008/09/02/todays-projects/ I’m stuck somewhere between “poignant” and “funny”. (via Sharon.) http://www.baltimoresquirrels.com/2008/09/01/graffitist-banksy-hits-the-deep-south/ Providing direct ways for non-technical content creators to edit web pages has been a dilemma since the dawn of the web. Indeed the larger problem, exposing powerful formatting and layout abilities without also exposing complex and cryptic presentation formulas, must realistically occupy a reasonably large percentage of everything we ... http://www.baltimoresquirrels.com/2008/08/31/web-content-formatting-for-normals/ I’ve decided I need to make a video game, probably for the iPhone, of my little bumble bee. I’m going to call it Clumsy Bumble and gameplay will consist of tilting the phone around to navigate a bumble bee through a series of poorly drawn obstacles. There will ... http://www.baltimoresquirrels.com/2008/08/28/clumsy-bumble/ Jon Stewart held an informal breakfast chat with some of the biggest names in journalism a few days ago, the theme more-or-less summed up in the title of this post. The Indecision 2008 blog has it covered in three parts (click, click and click). Pity the event wasn’t ... http://www.baltimoresquirrels.com/2008/08/28/why-do-i-take-this-more-seriously-than-you/