Mortaine’s Blog

Tomorrow is April Fool’s Day.

This week, I have been very angry about a lot of things. This suggests to me that practical jokes on April 1 will not go over well for me, and also that I should probably not play any, since they’re bound to be mean-spirited.

So instead, John and I are going camping.

You SUCK!

I own Quickbooks Pro for Mac. I have it installed and working. This, despite the fact that it does not work as documented.

I now own TurboTax Premier, which is advertised as being able to import from Quicken, Quickbooks, and MS Money. It is dual-platform software (installs on both Win and Mac).

At NO POINT does it say “but only on Windows” for the import option. Nor does it say “must have program installed on same computer.” I tried to import my QB file to TT installed on the Windows machine, but it did not work– said I needed to have QuickBooks installed on that machine instead.

I tried to install it on the Mac– it crashed during updates, so I reinstalled and manually updated, then it ran the auto-updater anyway, but at least it got through it this time (perhaps because I upgraded my OS? I don’t know). But when I try to import my Quickbooks file– it’s not an option!

After MUCH digging in the forums, I find a note from “TurboTaxKathy” that says “Importing from Quickbooks is not supported on the Mac at this time.”

WTF?!?!?!? That’s false advertising. I am sick to death of crappy vendors offering non-support to Macintosh users. I want a refund. Actually, what I WANT is for the goddamned software to work AS ADVERTISED. I want to get what I actually PAID FOR.

No love and a lot of pointy things hurled in your general direction,
Me.

This is an archive of my shorter book reviews and notes, which historically have been posted over at the 50 Book Challenge on LiveJournal, but which I’m starting to move over here. I’m posting them with altered date-stamps, but they might show up in my LiveJournal cross-post anyway. Bear with me, please.

Note: Many of these books also have full reviews available in the book review podcast (RSS).
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I have to do-over that last chapter, based on learning stuff between then and now.

That’s why it’s a draft.

Click here for the movie! (MPEG-4 format)

100% of the book is done:

Release date: July 5, 2006

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