diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 6dd64ed7f..500028264 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+== 0.1.1
+
+* substantial improvements to the command line interface
+
 == 0.1.0
 
 * initial release
diff --git a/bin/google-api b/bin/google-api
index 791f71825..26e4a3bd2 100755
--- a/bin/google-api
+++ b/bin/google-api
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ HTML
           :verbose => false
         }
         @argv = argv.clone
-        if @argv.first =~ /^[a-z0-9_-]+$/i
+        if @argv.first =~ /^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]*$/i
           self.options[:command] = @argv.shift
         end
         if @argv.first =~ /^[a-z0-9_-]+\.[a-z0-9_\.-]+$/i
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ HTML
           opts.banner = "Usage: google-api " +
             "(execute <rpcname> | [command]) [options] [-- <parameters>]"
 
-          opts.separator ""
+          opts.separator "\nAvailable options:"
 
           opts.on(
               "--scope <scope>", String, "Set the OAuth scope") do |s|
@@ -118,17 +118,25 @@ HTML
             options[:content_type] = f
           end
 
-          opts.on_tail("-v", "--verbose", "Run verbosely") do |v|
+          opts.on("-v", "--verbose", "Run verbosely") do |v|
             options[:verbose] = v
           end
-          opts.on_tail("-h", "--help", "Show this message") do
+          opts.on("-h", "--help", "Show this message") do
             puts opts
             exit
           end
-          opts.on_tail("--version", "Show version") do
+          opts.on("--version", "Show version") do
             puts "google-api-client (#{Google::APIClient::VERSION::STRING})"
             exit
           end
+
+          opts.separator(
+            "\nAvailable commands:\n" +
+            "   oauth-login   Log a user into an API\n" +
+            "   list          List the methods available for a service\n" +
+            "   execute       Execute a method on the API\n" +
+            "   irb           Start an interactive client session"
+          )
         end
       end
 
@@ -283,9 +291,10 @@ HTML
         end
       end
 
-      def interactive
+      def irb
         require 'signet/oauth_1/client'
         require 'yaml'
+        require 'irb'
         config_file = File.expand_path('~/.google-api.yaml')
         signed = File.exist?(config_file)
 
@@ -314,7 +323,8 @@ HTML
             config["token_credential_secret"]
         end
 
-        require 'irb'
+        # Otherwise IRB will misinterpret command-line options
+        ARGV.clear
         IRB.start(__FILE__)
       end
 
@@ -327,6 +337,11 @@ HTML
         end
         exit(1)
       end
+
+      def help
+        puts self.parser
+        exit(0)
+      end
     end
   end
 end
diff --git a/lib/google/api_client/version.rb b/lib/google/api_client/version.rb
index 4ee41de65..ef77290bc 100644
--- a/lib/google/api_client/version.rb
+++ b/lib/google/api_client/version.rb
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ module Google
     module VERSION
       MAJOR = 0
       MINOR = 1
-      TINY  = 0
+      TINY  = 1
 
       STRING = [MAJOR, MINOR, TINY].join('.')
     end