that try to rip you off. The Super 8, Motel Six, Hampton etc usually have their stuff together. But heaven forbid that a big fancy Hilton, Crowne Plaza, or Sheraton treat their customers honestly. A certain major hotel in a certain major Canadian city just charged me $200 for a room that I didn't sleep in, days AFTER I had returned to my own country! This is why road guys NEVER leave their credit cards for incidental charges. Even when someone else is supposed to be paying for the room the big hotels always seem to screw something up. Who knows how much extra money they've made by double charging rooms to multiple customers. Caveat Emptor!
posted by JTC 3:59 PM
Sunday, June 22, 2008
This will make you smile
If it doesn't you're even more cold hearted than me.
I have a whole bunch of thoughts about this but for now there is nothing except: Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine et lux perpetua luceat eis.
posted by JTC 9:18 PM
Well, one thing MoneyDance has going for it: the download is only about 6MB. It's available for OS X, Windows, & Linux too. More when I've tried out the demo.
posted by JTC 4:44 PM
Quicken S**ks
Intuit gives capitalists a bad name! Have just discovered that my copy of Quicken 2005 will no longer accept downloads from my bank. Why you may ask? Because Intuit wants me to buy a newer version full of resource hogging features that I don't need. I used Quicken 95 successfully for many years, through many computers, until my new bank decided not to support QIF files in favor of the newer (arguably better) QFX/OFX file format. So down the upgrade path I went. After I download a QFX file from my bank, containing data that belongs to me, Quicken (which I own) goes online and displays a message that says "updating financial institution info". I never thought too much of this. Big mistake! Turns out that Quicken is not actually talking to my bank. It's talking to INTUIT! Asking for permission to import my data. Intuit decides to force it's users to buy new software so it simply instructs it's servers to respond to the older version telling it not to allow the import. Now, if that's not bad enough: Did they ever warn anyone this was coming? When I purchased and registered the software did they tell me this? (yes I know, it's probably buried in the license somewhere) No to both! AND, to boot, it doesn't even tell you this now, it simply refuses to import the data and gives you a cryptic message that says: "Quicken is currently unable to verify the financial institution information for this download. Please try again later." Leaving you thinking there is a temporary network problem or something wrong with your computer. Inuit's support pages still don't tell you the truth they send you running around looking for errors in the security settings on your machine. One thing is for certain, I will NOT be buying Quicken again. I am currently working on figuring out a temporary workaround for this problem. It's likely I'll be moving to different software, maybe Moneydance. I'm a little too tee'd off right now to make a final decision but the first company to treat it's customers responsibly will likely win! May Intuit's managers and programmers rot in a special corner of Purgatory beset by communist thugs.
posted by JTC 1:23 PM
JTC's outlook on faith, family, politics as well as the trivial & profound of daily life.
Email your comments, opinions, love & hate to: JohnBlog@earthlink.net
If you send email to this address you are granting me permission to post all or part of your message on this website. Unless you specifically state otherwise.
