decentralize twitter? look to the past, not the future

this morning techcruch decided to roundup folks waxing philosophical about the scalability problems with twitter, and decentralizing twitter by creating some new web site or service. and that’s entirely the problem with their thinking.
why their approaches will not work
people are thinking of this as a web problem. twitter is not a web problem. the trouble [...]

stop giving your installer a crappy name

okay, bitch time again.
when i download your program, and i save it to my downloads folder, and i want to find it later…
i want to find it listed alphabetically by product name. this means, do NOT:

put “Setup…” in front of the product name
put “Install…” in front of the product name
put “YourCompanyName…” in front of the [...]