The Linear Canvas

Last year, when the tax season got close, for the first time in a long time, I had to choose the software program I was using. I had already purchased a copy of the federal and state versions of Intuit’s TurboTax. Intuit had implemented DRM, Digital Rights Management, in their last year’s version to help prevent piracy. Then when I heard of software glitches in TurboTax from a friend in Detroit, I became concerned. He had system crashes when he installed Intuit’s TurboTax. Evidently the DRM software was behind the crashes. Even more problems were being found by end users, which were being traced to the DRM as well. Some of the problems were planned limitations, like only being able to print the return on one printer, on one computer. Others were accusations of spyware and data loss.

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I finally got Movable Type running on my web site. I have copied over all of my previous Earthlink posts. From a user standpoint, using Movable Type as opposed to the limited capability of the Earthlink page, is almost unreal. I was having fun on my Earthlink Blog. I hope now with more control, I will have even more fun. If I could make Movable Type better, I would put in WYSIWYG editing for the posts (entries), templates, and the cascading style sheets plus a dictionary. I must admit, it is a fun kind of challenge to go back and do manual HTML and XML again.

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