Thursday, April 13, 2006

Tax Time

Well, its our favorite time of the year. Time to file those tax returns, and close to the one remaining reason to boot Windows. I was going to try out the online version of Tax Cut this year from my Fedora system, but the site didn't recognise my system configuration (Firefox running on Linux doesn't compute).

The other thing - probably more important is the idea of those Tax Cut people having all my financial info in their database. Now that's just begging for trouble! I'm sure the company (H&R Block) has a privacy policy and won't explicitly share my info with any telemarketers, but companies employ individuals, and all it takes is one individual with access to the data and a lack of scruples to foul things up for a lot of people.

Maybe I'll go back to pen and paper (yikes!).

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