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How to re-attach an Omnipod pod

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:00:28 +0000

My wife is a type 1 diabetic, and for the past year or so she’s been using an Omnipod to deliver the insulin she needs. She likes the Omnipod a lot better than the old-fashioned Medtronic insulin pumps she used

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How we learn

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:00:05 +0000

An article on Lifehacker this week explained a lot about how I initially became a computer professional. Its advice was to fly by the seat of your pants, try things without guidance or manuals, not be afraid to fail occasionally,

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What to do when your COBRA paperwork doesn’t show up

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:25:08 +0000

I’m writing this to hopefully save someone from having as bad of a day as I’ve just had. You see, I started a new job on July 3. My new health insurance starts August 1. My former employer terminated my

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A more likely use of the Medtronic exploit

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:41:19 +0000

Yesterday morning, as I completed the long journey from my parking spot to my office, another more likely use of the security vulnerability in Medtronic insulin pumps occurred to me. Yes, the risks involving insulin are very real. And yes,

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Shame on you, Medtronic

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:56:41 +0000

Insulin pumps marketed by Minneapolis-based Medtronic have a serious, life-threatening security flaw, and the company couldn’t care less. For these two reasons, this isn’t your typical security flaw, and Medtronic’s response–in 30 years, we’ve ever seen a problem that we

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How the Republican Party is losing me

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:24:15 +0000

I tend to lean to the right. For as long as I understood what it meant to be conservative or liberal, Republican or Democrat, I called myself a conservative Republican. In college, I wrote a newspaper column for 3 1/2 years brashly titled "No Left Turns."

In last year's primary, I voted for Ron Paul for a couple of reasons. One, a lot of things he said made sense. Two, at least he sincerely believed in the things he said that didn't make sense. And three, he's a doctor. When Ron Paul predictably didn't get the nomination, I voted against John McCain and for a Democrat, Barack Obama. The main reason was health care.

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Living without electricity for five days

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:20:41 +0000

On July 19, a fierce storm pounded St. Louis. At around 7 pm, the power flickered, then it went out. The sky looked threatening and the winds were relentless, so my wife and I gathered up flashlights and a portable radio and headed for the basement.

What happened next wasn't at all what we were expecting.

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Visiting a movie sneak preview

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 17:06:20 +0000

I attended a sneak preview a couple of weeks ago of a movie that was released last week. The movie title isn't terribly important--it was a ho-hum flick that no one will remember in six months--but the measures, well, they gave credence to a comment I made recently in a conversation.

When my girlfriend said the United States is a free country, I said that at least when it comes to copyright, it's not.

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