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<\/p>\nIt\u2019s tax time in the United States. Many have already submitted our taxes, some are working on them, and others waiting.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s my e-mail inbox for one of the e-mail accounts that I maintain:<\/p>\n
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Seeing that, you\u2019d probably think that I\u2019ve been working on my taxes and submitted them \u2026. Well, nope. We haven\u2019t started yet. However, someone named Nicole did work on and successfully complete her taxes yesterday (and congratulations Nicole, the return was accepted<\/em>!). <\/p>\n Until we move to a more universal form of online identification, like Open ID, a Facebook account, Windows Live, etc., is there a better way? My paranoid side says though that I would be uncomfortable linking my financial accounts, my tax returns, my healthcare records, to a common \u201csocial\u201d account, but when I skip making that link, I\u2019m back to needing e-mail verification. Would you make that link and use a common account?<\/p>\n By the way, H&R Block did not send an e-mail verification to my e-mail account for Nicole.<\/strong><\/p>\n I did try to find a reasonable way to contact H&R Block to notify them of the issue, but they seemed to want every piece of personal information about me just to hear my contact that I decided not to:<\/p>\n And there appears to be no way to contact them about their web site \u2013 so it wasn\u2019t clear that giving out this information was going to actually help Nicole.<\/p>\n Sorry Nicole. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s tax time in the United States. Many have already submitted our taxes, some are working on them, and others waiting. Here\u2019s my e-mail inbox for one of the e-mail accounts that I maintain: Seeing that, you\u2019d probably think that I\u2019ve been working on my taxes and submitted them \u2026. Well, nope. We haven\u2019t started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd5QIe-bf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1358,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/1358","url_meta":{"origin":697,"position":0},"title":"Nest Thermostat Review, Update #2","date":"December 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019ve discussed my Nest thermostat experience a few times and am slowly becoming less convinced that it is ready for the market if you\u2019re at all technically savvy and you\u2019re easily frustrated by things not working the way you\u2019d expect (like, you know how to setup e-mail on your phone).\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","img":{"alt_text":"image","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/image_thumb9.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":128,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/128","url_meta":{"origin":697,"position":1},"title":"Technical Interview Question Series Starting","date":"April 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm going to begin posting weekly a technical interview question. 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Just move along if you\u2019re not interested. :-) Here\u2019s the support e-mail I just sent Nest (via their online contact form) (Dec. 31, 2011, 9:15am): We have three Nest thermostats in our\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":628,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/628","url_meta":{"origin":697,"position":4},"title":"Hi [NAME], (Are you listening?)","date":"December 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Have you ever had a conversation similar to below? It happens far too frequently. If you give out your business card or contact information, expect that people might actually use it and expect a response. Don\u2019t give it out if you don\u2019t care about your customers. You\u2019re just wasting my\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":426,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/426","url_meta":{"origin":697,"position":5},"title":"Visual WebGUI — Uh? Neat technology for someone else.","date":"July 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"At the top of the page linked above, you can try the Ajax version or the Silverlight version of their web-mail demo. Try it. I won't say that I'm not impressed by what they've accomplished technically. It's impressive. 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