It might be the stress of several late nights sorting out the taxes, but this email tonight from the TurboTax filing center made me laugh: I feel like a winner: “Congratulations!” it says. Now all I have to do is pay my taxes! I guess at some level I should feel good that the IRS has accepted my creation. The... (more)
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This morning, the front page of the San Jose Mercury News included this disturbing story: Unopened rebate requests found in San Jose dumpster. Tech writer Dean Takahashi writes: … I am staring at more than 1,300 rebate requests sent to Vastech on Bonaventura Drive in San Jose. The envelopes were tossed - unopened - into a garbage dumpster near... (more)
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... (more)
Doing my taxes today and wrestling with TurboTax as usual. Check out this cool error message while trying to file electronically:... (more)
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