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For those of you living in Ohio, you might be interested in the new ability the state has made available to file your 2003 income tax forms online, for free.
The process takes you through all the forms and how to fill them out online, and even has the ability to directly deposit your refund into your bank account electronically.
Japanese businessmen holding a service aimed at fending off viruses and glitches for their computers. It’s a purification ceremony conducted by a Shinto priest according to Shinto rituals.
The Terry Tate: Office Linebacker commercial that wasn’t shown during the SuperBowl, but should have.
For those of you MS Windows users who’d rather not be forced to use the Real One Player to view real-media content, you can try RealAlternative, which provides access to the proper codecs under MS Windows Media Player.
I just finished reading Dave Barry’s Tricky Business, the second novel from the award-winning newspaper humorist. It’s a good read, the 287 pages move along pretty swiftly as Barry pokes fun at overbearing moms, inane local newscrews and the various people haunting the gambling cruisers of south Miami.
Thumbs up.
I’ve also begun playing Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town for the Gameboy Advance. The game plays like a portable version of Animal Crossing, but with the economics of a farm that the entire Harvest Moon series of games provide. You just can’t go wrong with a game in which one of the feature bullet-points on the box is “Improved marriage system”.
The graphics are gorgeous, especially on the demure little portable screen, the music charming and the characters interesting in a chibi-anime superdeformed way. There’s no timelimit on your actions, so you can play at your own pace, which is a welcome change from previous versions of the game.
Four cows out of five.