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Congress finally passed the AMT fix for 2007 after the Senate rejected their attempt to use Pay-As-You-Go to pay for the fix (which I was in favor of BTW). This was a rather back and forth that lasted a few months and really should have been solved a long time ago.

However, it doesn't bode well for next year. Sigh.

It will take time for tax forms and online tax software to get updated so I'd wait to do taxes till you can confirm that all the new rules have been updated.

The tax code in this country is in a sad sad state. The future budgets in this country are based on an increasing number of people paying the AMT and it's the dirty little secret that no one cares to point out when the president and our elected representatives are asking for a fix for the AMT.

I was going to try and say something original, but Adam Barr said it best.

Today is July 7, 2007, which of course abbreviates nicely as shown in the title. For some reason I like to post blog entries on days like today as proof that I did actually take note of their awesomeness, as I was experiencing it.

I can still remember the time, gosh it must have been about thirty years ago, when my father pointed out to me that it was 7-7-77.

In other news related to this date, it would have been Robert Heinlein's 100th birthday (nice how the slashdot URLs happen to have the date in them in 2-digit format, so they encode "07/07/07" for all stories posted today), which means he was also born on 07-07-07.

And Boeing is planning to introduce their new airplane, the 787, tomorrow, on 07/08/07.

In other news, it looks like I've been blogging for 6 or so years. In that time I used Radio Userland, Blogger, now DasBlog. Does anyone use Radio Userland any more?

Oh, and I'm looking forward to flying the 787 someday. It may displace my favorite aircraft the Airbus A330-200.