Friday, November 26, 2010

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Aetna Healthfund auto accident coverage

- Called on 11/23/2010 at 3:22pm
- Found out there is no special treatment for medical injuries due to a car accident.
- Only additional thing they do is they give you a questionnaire to basically check and see if you have any non-Aetna insurers that should be billed first.
- 3rd party insurance kicks in (mine or other person's) before Aetna kicks in
- Will need denial or exhaustion of coverage letter before Aetna kicks in from 3rd party insurer.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Future flash purchases

- Umbrella adapter
- Male/Male PC connector (9' minimum)
- Possibly cold shoe adapter as well

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Win7 install info

- Downloaded all Win7 drivers fro all EVGA components ahead of time:
* Audio
* Network
* Chipset

BIOS settings
* SATA mode: [RAID]
* JMB362 SATA contorller [auto]
* JMB363 SATA/PATA controller [auto]
* JMB363 Mode [RAID mode]
* JMB362 Mode [RAID mode]

Power Management
* ACPI enabled
* ACPI Suspend type [S3/STR]
* USB KB wake up [disabled]

Monday, November 8, 2010

Adobe RSRG offset

After a phone call with Adobe accounting I figured out what was going on. When my Restricted Stock Shares vested:
- Adobe listed the full value of the vested restricted shares as income on my paycheck statement.
- Adobe then paid taxes by selling some of those vested shares (so I don't end up with a tax surprise at the end of the year).
- However, if they stopped there Adobe's finance system would have generated a check for me for the balance (i.e., value of options - taxes withheld > 0). But of course that "income" is listed for tax reporting purposes only, the shares now in my control actually hold the value. So to avoid having the system create an incorrect paycheck they create an artificial "RSRG Offset" item that is listed as a deduction. The RSRG Offset is exactly the net left over after subtracting the taxes withheld from the value of the shares that vested.

In other words the formula is:
Value of options at vest - taxes withheld = RSRG offset.