Red Wing Software has added the ability to track and report information required by the Affordable Care Act for tax filing purposes to CenterPoint Payroll Software. The feature enables employers to track required ACA information and have it appear on forms 1094-C and 1095-C. Although final versions of those forms will not be available until the week of December 21, payroll users can now download and install this newest version, 9.18. Red Wing will release end-of-year tax forms and tax table updates that week.

Plumbline Solutions, developer of Dynamics SL, has turned to the past to rename itself. The company has become Solomon Cloud Solutions, still based in Findlay, Ohio, home of the former Solomon Software. So let's just get the issue out in public—what does this mean for the future ownership of the product currently known as Dynamics SL and owned by Microsoft? Solomon co-founder, Gary Harpst, who is serving as chairman of the renamed company says the renaming does not reflect on any looming change in ownership. In response to the question, Harpst said the name change is because "When there are major platform/market transitions opportunity abounds. We are moving aggressively across our family of businesses to leverage this transition."

There's a scientific study that is trying to decide if people transmit happiness by smell. I don't know about happiness, but I've frequently been able to transmit disgust that way. ... I was walking around taking photos when a guy asked, "Can you use all that equipment?" "No," I replied. "But I know how to use a credit card real well." ... Here at Harvard for my wife's class reunion.