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Fix kitchen light bulb flickering

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 11:00:15 +0000

Flickering lights can be a sign of a serious electrical problem. But kitchen light bulb flickering often is due to other issues because a kitchen provides challenges you usually don’t find elsewhere in the house. Let’s look at things that cause kitchen

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Pros and cons of RightTrack or SnapShot devices

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 11:00:35 +0000

Insurance companies are starting to offer discounts if you plug one of their devices, often called a RightTrack or SnapShot, into your car’s ODB2 port. One of my college buddies asked me about them when his insurance company offered his

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Health insurance between jobs

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 11:00:15 +0000

I recently changed jobs, and although I’ve dealt with gaps in medical coverage before, I didn’t anticipate everything this time. Let’s talk about what to do for health insurance between jobs. And let’s talk coverage too–they aren’t always the same

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1984 called. It wants its surveillance back.

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:00:50 +0000

So, the reaction to my story about my coworker’s 10-year-old going all Scooby Doo on the guy who had the nerve to steal his dad’s car was definitely mixed. Most people, of course, lauded the 10-year-old’s detective work. Others pointed out the

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My coworker’s car got stolen. His 10-year-old found it.

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:00:00 +0000

“I started my car this morning to let it warm up,” my coworker, Jon, told me on Tuesday. “And when I went back out to my car two minutes later, it was gone.” It took a few seconds for that

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Why you may not want a Nest

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:00:48 +0000

Ars Technica (link removed in retaliation for Conde Nast’s 11/3/2025 layoffs–sorry not sorry) has some harrowing speculation about the Nest, and why Google is interested in it. I wanted a Nest, but haven’t bought one because I have a Carrier

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What your health insurance company doesn’t want you to know

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 11:00:58 +0000

My wife is a Type 1 diabetic. She’s the type of person insurance companies go out of their way to deny coverage for, and while I suppose I can say I’m used to them not covering her without a fight,

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Deconstructing the healthcare.gov website fiasco

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:01:49 +0000

By reader request, I’m going to grab onto the third rail and talk about the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare/healthcare.gov website fiasco. As someone who has been involved in a large number of IT projects, inside and outside the government, successful and

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It’s 6:21 PM. Do you know what the current version of Firefox is?

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:21:38 +0000

Veteran blogger John Dominik reported yesterday that upgrading to Firefox 13 fixed some problems for him. So of course he’ll be thrilled to know that Firefox released a new version the very next day. The. Very. Next. Day. From a

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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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