http://tomsucks.wordpress.com Everything sucks, but we can make it suck less Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:38:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I logged in to let my OpenID work on another site (I am not terribly active at actually writing down my thoughts) and saw that someone from the Houston Chronicle had tried to contact me a few days ago, wanting to interview me about Twitter. I have e-mailed her ... http://tomsucks.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/pretty-neat/ From today's TUAW Live Chat with Pytey, pytey - This is a tricky one, Apple have made some sole distribution clauses in app contracts. It is a shame, I'm guessing people will have to make the choice of big bucks or free of charge. The confirmation of my NDA speculation (I ... http://tomsucks.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/pytey-nda-suspicions/ Oh boy. Twitter acquired summize. We're fucked! Summize, used to power some pretty awesome sites (like Get Satisfaction's "overheard" feature), will now start failing more often, and the part about adding other services is now gone. Here's the About Summize section from the Summize.com about page (courtesy Google ... http://tomsucks.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/twitter-acquires-summize-were-doomed/ Creating Our Own Happiness by Wayne Coyne http://tomsucks.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/wayne-is-good/ http://tomsucks.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/stacks-as-list-visual-glitch-on-mac-os-1053/ There's two firefox features that don't exist in Safari which give it an edge, but some Safari users don't happen to know about them... I know this first one has caused a stir, because I saw an article that I can't find now where someone mentioned Safari devs really don't think ... http://tomsucks.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/safari-is-not-designed-for-tabbed-browsing/ If you can write an iPhone app this easily, for jailbroken phones, there is no excuse. none. http://tomsucks.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/iphone-developers-have-no-excuse/ I'm testing Jotting to my WordPress blog. Just making sure that it works out fine. I was interested to know if it will post an audio link of my words. And I do not like domainers. listen Powered by Jott http://tomsucks.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/im-testing-jotting/ You know how site finder made every domain name resolve? Well, how is it different with the dozens of parked domains that DON'T EVEN HAVE A buy this site LINK THESE DAYS so they can't be domaining. I came up with a few good domains for my serious blog, but ... http://tomsucks.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/worse-than-sitefinder/ I brought up real life social networking before in an incoherent rant, and there's now even more proof that it needs to become a reality. Obviously Twitter could be helping a little bit, who knows how bad it would have gotten if Twitter didn't exist (for background, Twitter is _huge_ in ... http://tomsucks.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/we-have-the-technology-to-prevent-jap-suicides/