Tom's dashboard

The site requests my Gmail password despite the presence of the Gmail Contacts API. This is an instance of the password anti-pattern (Google it). There are a variety of ways not to do this - allow people to import their data using the API, as well as using hCard/XFN, FOAF and other importers that do not require me to give out my password. This teaches users to phish. Good functionality, bad implementation.

I can't launch NetBeans 6.0.1 or 6.1 Beta on OS X. Every time I try, it appears momentarily in the Dock, then disappears. I've tried removing the ~/.netbeans directory, and trying to reinstalling NetBeans. Neither seems to work.

I can launch NetBeans from the command line by typing:
open "/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 6.0.1.app"

I have a Gmail account which has numerous e-mail accounts feeding into it - all of which are recognised as sender names. But my Google Groups account is tied to my gmail.com address. This means that either I have to sign up for multiple Google accounts for each different email account and keep them all in-sync, or I have to send all my mailing list e-mail from my gmail.com address, even though that's not my primary address. I therefore get lots of e-mails back from Google Groups telling me that I'm not allowed to send to that list. This is annoying and is preventing me from fully participating on some mailing lists.

I am a human being. I am not my khakis or my sofa and I sure as shit ain't my inverse functional properties! ;) Please fix this!