{"id":179,"date":"2005-03-29T22:01:31","date_gmt":"2005-03-30T04:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2007-03-13T21:35:21","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T03:35:21","slug":"of-computers-and-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2005\/of-computers-and-software.html","title":{"rendered":"Of computers and software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re still working on the whole computer thing. &nbsp;As you may have read, our computer had a bit of a meltdown. &nbsp;So, it&#8217;s been repairing, installing, and even taking the machine into the shop for some professional opinions. &nbsp;I do have the computer back, but there are still some rather big glitches that I&#8217;m trying to work out. &nbsp;So I&#8217;ll let you know how it goes.<\/p>\n<p>On the same topic, I finished my income taxes and did it using a popular software program.&nbsp; Frankly, I think next year I&#8217;ll go back to pen and paper. &nbsp;The nice thing about the software is that it can send your tax return over the net, and if you&#8217;re entitled to a refund you get it quickly. &nbsp;As usual I checked it out on paper first, then entered it into the software.<\/p>\n<p>So far so good. &nbsp;But the software <i>insisted<\/i> that it knew the best way to input a certain number so that we would get the largest refund possible. &nbsp;Problem is, it <i>wasn&#8217;t<\/i> the best way. &nbsp;I tried and tried, talked to technical support, but to no avail. &nbsp;The program insisted it knew the best way. &nbsp;Finally I found a way around it.<\/p>\n<p>Now I realize there&#8217;s a slight chance I may eat my words and find out the program was right all along. &nbsp;But this is not the first time this has happened. &nbsp;And the thing is, I would have been done in a third of the time if I&#8217;d just used pen and paper. &nbsp;So next year, I think that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll do.&nbsp; Computers are great for some things, but there are still a lot of times they should just be turned off.  \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re still working on the whole computer thing. &nbsp;As you may have read, our computer had a bit of a meltdown. &nbsp;So, it&#8217;s been repairing, installing, and even taking the machine into the shop for some professional opinions. &nbsp;I do have the computer back, but there are still some rather big glitches that I&#8217;m trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-internet","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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