San José State Celebrates 150th Anniversary

Today marks the 150th anniversary of San José State University, here in the middle of Silicon Valley. Both the San Jose Mercury News and San José State have put up a bunch of historical documents, photographs, and interviews. The Mercury has an interactive timeline that is especially good. Also, check out the list of notable alumni from Stevie Nicks to Jessica McClintock to Gordon Moore to Bill Walsh.

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Intuit Overwhelmed, Blames Customers

Well, it looks like my problems yesterday weren’t special at all. Everyone was having trouble according to the Mercury News story this morning: For Intuit’s customers, Tax Day turned out to be even more stressful than they’d feared – and the company faced quite a challenge, too. The Mountain View financial software company’s servers couldn’t cope with the massive Web traffic from last-minute electronic filers. So when some Intuit TurboTax customers logged on to e-file their taxes, they saw error messages and weren’t able to file. Being one of the “last possible minute” crowd myself, I have no problem believing…

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