As recent readers to my blog know I’ve been going through the process of collecting information to make a decision about my family’s health insurance needs for the future. I’ve made that decision, enacted it, and now am free-and-clear to resume living my life until this time next year when I’ll need to decide what to do for 2015.

Ok, so on the surface this is good for me. It lets me keep my plan. (Edit: no, it won’t. New Hampshire has opted not to extend the cancelation deadline, likely for the reasons I originally detailed below). But… we’re also still mandating that insurance companies must take people with pre-existing conditions. And now we’re (effectively) saying […]

Earlier this year Swatch made waves in the watch industry when they introduced the Sistem51, a watch with a mechanical movement whose assembly is fully-automated. This keeps costs down (think $150) while presumably preserving high quality (they say the watch is regulated by a laser at the factory and requires no further tuning). Initially rumored for […]

On Wednesday, President Obama sat down with NBC and issued what amounts to a blanket apology to people like me who had very good health insurance plans which will be canceled as a part of ACA/ObamaCare next year (plans that he has called “substandard”). Apology accepted. And Obama also deserves a heartfelt attaboy for stepping up […]

After last week’s Apple Event in San Francisco I had a chance to chat with Bloomberg’s Jon Erlichman on Pimm Fox’s show. It was a fun chat, despite the treachery of the cars racing by just inches behind us! The thing that most impressed me at the event was the iPad Air. We got to […]