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Somebody just tried to hack me

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:15:43 +0000

Caller: “I calling from technical support. We found issue with your PC.” Me: “What company are you with?” Caller: “CSA is the name of my company.” Me: “What’s our business relationship?” Caller: “We found issue with your PC. Our technicians

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Meet the new malcontents. Same as the old malcontents.

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:19:13 +0000

The Guardian presents an interesting perspective, that hacktivists are bored teenagers driven by their hatred of government policy. If that’s the case, it’s nothing new. They’re just able to make bigger messes today than their counterparts could 20 years ago.

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No, the government isn’t going to come take your trains

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:23:34 +0000

Friday’s news that the Department of Health and Human Services have added formaldehyde to the list of known carcinogens and styrene to the list of potential human carcinogens caused a rumble in some of the circles I run in. Let’s

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The Cars got back together?

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 09 May 2011 00:11:36 +0000

On the radio this afternoon I heard something completely out of the blue: the DJ said The Cars have a new record coming out on May 10 and are doing a small tour. So I came home and checked it

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Reactions to Allen’s memoir. And my reactions to them.

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:47:31 +0000

I hate April Fool’s Day. So nobody thinks this is an April Fool’s joke, I’ll just write more about what I wrote about yesterday, concentrating on media reactions to Paul Allen’s memoir. Then, tomorrow, I’ll revisit a very serious, important

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Paul Allen’s tearing into Gates seems familiar

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 03:02:23 +0000

You’ve probably heard by now about Vanity Fair publishing an excerpt from Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen’s autobiography, which doesn’t give the most flattering portrayal of Bill Gates, his former business partner. I’ve heard most of these stories before, though I’m

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Fixing my b0rken WordPress installation

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:46:47 +0000

A little over a week ago, WordPress started acting weird. First, it just got dog slow. Then my site stats page started freezing until I scrolled down and then back up again. Then I started seeing a WordPress.com logon screen

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Boundaries

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:15:07 +0000

So an ex-girlfriend finds you on Facebook and contacts you out of the blue 12 years after the fact. What do you do?

1. Jump up and down like a giddy schoolgirl because someone's interested enough to find you after all that time?

2. Passive-aggressively sit on the message?

3. Tell her exactly what you never had the chance to tell her?

Although option 2 crossed my mind, I thought it best to handle it a little bit differently.

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Dealing with being laid off

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 14 May 2006 21:17:04 +0000

Well, it's been just over a year since I was laid off from the only job I was ever willing to relocate for. Layoffs are never fun. Looking back, with the perspective of a year and two days now, it was the best thing that could have happened to me.

But I'll be honest: That doesn't make it hurt much less. But I know the shoes I was in a year ago try on someone new every day, and every year around this time, one or more of my former coworkers finds themselves in those shoes. I don't know if I can help, but I'm going to try.

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Some baseball players entertain; Dave Dravecky changed my life

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 04:37:31 +0000

This evening I looked at the list of short biographies I've written. Some were requests. A number of them were people I found fascinating. And in the case of Lyman Bostock and George Brett, they were men who changed the way I lived life.

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