Or rather, waiting until the last minute to do your taxes suck. Filling out the forms today, I realized that my W2 doesn’t list the state taxes that were deducted from my paychecks. So now I have to pay New York State $311.13. Hopefully they’ll have that on record matched to my SSN and make sense of my note scrawled in the margin and send me a refund. Or maybe I’m just screwed.

Update: Nope, I was looking at the second page of W2 forms instead of the first. I still don’t understand why each of the little preforated tear-off copies don’t have the state tax deductions listed.

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I’ve signed up for Dodgeball, a new MoSoSo application that (in the vocabulary of Hollywood producers) is like Friendster for your cellphone.

If we know each other, sign up and add me as your friend (sorry folks, it’s only NYC for now).

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Help megnut find a new home: Good list of reliable web hosts. I’ve enjoyed vervehosting, but I’m running out of space and feel like I could get more for the same price elsewhere.

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Jeff and I had a presidential-themed weekend, seeing both First Lady Suite and Assassins. We also spotted 2 ½ celebrities and finally sampled the manna of Beard Papa.
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Why do all the cool kids have GMail accounts already? Like everyone else, I’m chomping at the bit to register my preferred username before someone else grabs it. Anybody have information on how to jump the queue?

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MT SafeHref Plugin: A MT global filter to make URLs that don’t have extended characters in them.

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PHP Mailer: Full featured email transfer class for PHP.

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Future-proofing your URLs in MT: If you want to move to permalinks with titles in the URL instead of IDs, use this template to generate a .htaccess file.

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I went with Jeff to his family’s second night of Passover seder last night (and met his aunt, cousin, and cousin’s daughter). I was pretty nervous beforehand, but I managed not to make a complete fool of myself reading from the Haggadah (even though I thought the afikoman was the “afro–kikkoman“) and I ended up having a lot of fun.

I’ve never been a big fan of Thanksgiving dinner before (probably due to my Dad ruining the turkey year after year with his smoker canister while I was growing up), but the similar Passover menu was fantastic. Jeff mom’s cranberry sauce with orange peel and walnuts was to die for (literally! — Jeff’s brother’s girlfriend is allergic to nuts and accidentally ate some, but fortunately she didn’t swell up like a balloon). And I got to have my first gefiltefish and matzo ball soup.

If Jeff and I wind up together for the long haul, I won’t mind becoming a “Christmas / Easter Jew” (our favorite joke from the lamentably cancelled Wonderfalls).

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Top 100 Sites you didn’t know you could live without: From PC Magazine

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