Let's hope the 2010 Quicken for Mac is not so dumb

Let me just say that I like Quicken. I have used it since 1990 (starting in DOS). It generally does what I expect, aside from a few deficiencies. But one problem is inexcusable - the Mac version puts important information in forks of the files. The problem is that if you want to back up and restore your files you must use a backup system that preserves the fork data. This severely limits your backup options. I *might* understand this unfortunate choice if it was a pure Mac app, but the Quicken code base has to run on Windows too. They had the technology to do this entirely in plain old data files but went out of their way to do extra work to make it less robust. That's just bad engineering.

Newsday.com business model fail

I stopped subscribing to Newsday about 5 years ago, when it dumbed itself
down beyond what I could take any more. What was going Dolan's mind
when he decided that the Newsday web site was worth paying a subscription
fee for? After 3 months, they picked up 35 subscribers. Read the full story

http://www.observer.com/2010/media/after-three-months-only-35-subscriptions-newsdays-web-site