Category Archives: Technology

eFile

Posted on January 3, 2007 by Kevin

The IRS wants people to file their tax returns electronically. I’m all for that, only it costs me extra do it through the tax software I use. So DUH, I mail the thing on paper. Now if the IRS passed … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Rant

Posted on November 17, 2006 by Kevin

I just learned that Microsoft requires a separate Windows license for every Virtual machine created to run under Microsoft Virtual PC 2004. With Virtual PC, you can run a separate instance of Windows on a machine already running Windows. It’s … Continue reading →

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Posted on September 17, 2006 by Kevin

My Motorola V557 cell phone pitched off the boat into Lake Hartwell (SC) in about 9 feet of water. One of the more aquatic members of our party dove down and recovered it after about 5 minutes. I removed the … Continue reading →

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I lost my chip

Posted on July 26, 2006 by Kevin

I, like many folks, have a USB flash drive that I carry around (I call it “my chip’). Last week it went missing. I have a backup of the chip, so it was easy to copy stuff onto a new … Continue reading →

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An Inconvenient Question

Posted on July 10, 2006 by Kevin

I went to see the Al Gore movie, An Inconvenient Truth. It’s a very interesting movie and I hope lots of folks will go to see it. I could do with a little less footage of Al Gore riding in … Continue reading →

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How about some phishing reporting standards?

Posted on May 30, 2006 by Kevin

Hey, you financial institutions! How about coming up with a standard email account for your domain for reporting phishing scams? spoof@ebay.com (and paypal.com and wamu.com) emailspoof@citigroup.com reportphish@wellsfargo.com abuse@bankofamerica.com fraud_prevention@citizensbank.com Come on. This is no time for creativity and branding.

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Surgeon General’s Warning?

Posted on May 12, 2006 by Kevin

So I installed Microsoft OneNote and was giving it a test drive. I dragged a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet icon onto my OneNote note. Then I double-clicked the link it created. Here’s the message I got: [Big Red “X”] Hyperlinks can … Continue reading →

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