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Falling Back

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Two times per year, I am reminded of the number of clocks we have in this house. The computers take care of themselves; even my PDA realized that we’ve returned to Standard Time, and set itself accordingly. Now, I get to look at the rest of our clocks, even the ones that get their time via an atomic clock someplace. They occasionally lose touch with the mother ship, and require attention. Then I have to remember the sometimes unintuitive set of key presses required to set each one.

My last blog post got posted into the future, and hence didn’t show up; I fixed that. I think. If this one shows up, that is.

In case you were wondering, this is a post whose primary function is to test the blog’s idea of time. The fact that it is about the return to Standard Time is just gravy.

-k-

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Sapped by the Intuit monster

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I’ve been a loyal customer of Intuit since 1990 or 1991 – clear back to the DOS Quicken days. I’ve also upgraded regularly, and expensively. I’ve cursed their inexcusable database design, I’ve watched their software hermaphrodite itself converting from the Windows to the Mac version in late 1999, and wrote some scripts to massage the data files to make the upgrade work; I’ve put up with unexplicable crashes, spinning Apple Beachballs, and wierdisms ad nauseum.

Tonight, they have taken advantage of my patience once too often. I sent some payments via Quicken Bill Pay; QBP sends back a withdrawal notice for their service charge; tonight, that service charge posting wiped out my opening register balance, with obvious ill effects on my current bank balance.

Luckily, I had a backup, and was able to retrieve the opening balance number, and all is now well in financial-land.

I’m through putting up with being treated this way. Is there any Mac-compatible financial software that I can use to replace Quicken? I’m finding out.

At least, the Justice Department had the good sense to disallow Intuit’s acquisition by Microsoft a few years back.

-k-

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