Today marks the 150th anniversary of San José State University, here in the middle of Silicon Valley. Both the San Jose Mercury News and San José State have put up a bunch of historical documents, photographs, and interviews. The Mercury has an interactive timeline that is especially good. Also, check out the list of notable alumni from Stevie Nicks to Jessica McClintock to Gordon Moore to Bill Walsh.
Matthew Skyrm from the Yahoo! Messenger product team appeared on John Dvorak’s Cranky Geeks video show tonight. Check it out to see Matthew in action, including an obscure Monica Lewinsky reference.
Well, it looks like my problems yesterday weren’t special at all. Everyone was having trouble according to the Mercury News story this morning: For Intuit’s customers, Tax Day turned out to be even more stressful than they’d feared – and the company faced quite a challenge, too. The Mountain View financial software company’s servers couldn’t cope with the massive Web traffic from last-minute electronic filers. So when some Intuit TurboTax customers logged on to e-file their taxes, they saw error messages and weren’t able to file. Being one of the “last possible minute” crowd myself, I have no problem believing…
Doing my taxes today and wrestling with TurboTax as usual. Check out this cool error message while trying to file electronically:
MareIsland1 Originally uploaded by brianc. Visited Mare Island, formerly a naval shipyard which was decommissioned over 10 years ago.