Recently I had an interesting thing happen. The quality of farmer’s market eggs had been called into question. While I have never personally doubted the freshness nor quality of the eggs provided, they always taste top notch and do wonders in a good flan, I felt compelled to investigate. I mean it could be placebo. Be damned if I’ll pay a premium for a hippie placebo.
After singing praises for Intuit’s Quick Tax We. I have to take most of it back. After 2 days of getting nothing but this gross post-it “Sorry, We are experiencing an error with this page *” note error page :
And many more hours of dealing with, I’m ashamed to say it, Intuit Customer Care Support, and getting nowhere I decided to take matters into my own hands. And the god awful truth is heinous.
Turns out is was actually “MY FAULT”, and by “MY FAULT” I mean the programmers at Intuit’s fault. Seems someone decided that instead of making their validator alert users to improper input, they would simply, error the page. The trick was all in my phone number (306)666-6666 not an uncommon way to enter a phone number, I would argue. OH! But no seems that is an edge case that demands a kicking. After modifying my phone number to 3066666666 everything was hunky dory. Oh course this might not be a validator error, it could be a *GASP* SQL error. But I’ll leave the injections to the Russian hackers, and pray that my Credit Card & Tax info is safe in the mean time.
So perhaps it’s time to try U-File ?
Ever wonder why you can’t buy blank digipak cases for your CDs or DVDs? How come the jewel case rules the roost of blank media packaging? Well wonder no longer, some crack investigative reporting unravels the digipak conspiracy…