TurboTax Runs Out of Gas

"Intuit is working with the IRS and has notified them that throughput on our electronic filing system was not what we expected, resulting in a system slowdown," the company said in a note on its Web site. "We encourage customers to continue trying to e-file as we continue to work on [...]

Coventi Pages - New Entrant in the Online Docs Market

Coventi is a new service for online editing and collaboration of documents. I used it to create a couple of documents, it worked as billed. I could create documents, invite other people to edit them, and then see the original and subsequent revisions in a Microsoft Word-like “track changes” mode.

The editing features were pretty primitive [...]

Web 2.0 Expo - day 1

I was going to post today from the Web 2.0 Expo sessions but truth be told I found the panels and presentations to be kind of boring. That’s not to say that the event is a flop because there are a lot of really interesting people to meet and I’ve heard the Web 2.0 Open [...]

Power Laws Revisited

Yep, power laws.

Simply put, the theory is that if someone is popular — for whatever reason, be it real talent or just blind luck — he or she is likely to become even more popular, since people tend to gravitate towards things that are already perceived as being popular. In the [...]

Built For vs. Used For

"Outlook wasn’t designed to be a file dump, it was meant to be a communications tool…There is that fine line, but we don’t necessarily want to optimize the software for people that store their e-mail in the same .PST file for ten years."

The quote is from the Outlook Program Manager following [...]

Friday Night PowerPoint Lesson

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link via Law Librarian Blog

Chavez’s Speech Writers

Whenever someone shouts a slogan that begins with the world "fatherland" I think the rest of the world has reason to be concerned.

`Fatherland, Socialism, or Death!’" Chavez told an audience of soldiers in a televised speech.

Tags: Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Psycho World Leaders

The Bullwhip Effect

My first reaction to reading the story about the continuing saga of San Fancisco’s new Muni line creating problems that are throwing the entire system into chaos (again mind you, this is a regular thing for Muni) was that for the $648 million the line extension cost to build one would think that someone could [...]

WTF is Computerworld Talking About?

Computerworld has a list of the Top 10 Firefox Extensions to Avoid… which I think is basically a list of the top 10 most popular Firefox extensions, seriously. There are such favorites on here as Greasemonkey, Noscript, Performancing, and PDF Download. AdBlock is on the list as well, which they justify by suggesting that:

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A War We Can All Support

I don’t think the following will get much disagreement:

The group’s mission is to awaken the public and get them to seriously think about the precious keyboard real estate that is so unfairly utilized by the (nearly) worthless uppercasing shortcut. Hintjens is a man on a mission, but he’s keeping a cool [...]

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