Dumping an interest

A while back I was mildly interesting in investing. I subscribed to all the RSS feeds I could find and read all kinds of tips about how I can get rich quick and maximize my 401(k). After reading Merlin Mann’s Cancel Something on 43Folders I definitely figured out I needed to ditch this.

I decided I need to focus on my eight goals for this year, investing isn’t one of them. I’m sure I’m missing out because I won’t be budgeting with Quicken and tracking each penny like miser but the over-arching goal is to get healthy.

This also really cleaned out my RSS feeds. The dude at Free Money Finance posts a million times a day which means that’s a million more times I’m distracted a day so I might see a slight improvement in productivity.

I could definitely use a few more of these sessions with some of my other occasional obsessions…

[tags]resolutions, goals, merlin mann, 43folders, gtd[/tags]

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5 comments

  1. Nice looking site. I’d like to know how you set up the 2006/01/12 dynamic url thingie :)

  2. Quick note: My comment isn’t seeming to show up on the comments RSS. Maybe it just takes a little bit

  3. Thanks! Here’s the rewrite stuff in my .htaccess file:
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    WordPress wrote it for me but if you look up mod_rewrite help there’s tons of it out there.?

    I have a whole lot of these at the beginning of my index.php also:

    ? ? ? ? header(‘HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently’);
    ? ? ? ? header(‘Location: http://lolindrath.com/‘);
    ? ? ? ? exit;

    Your comment didn’t come up right away because I turned on comment moderation. Once an author is approved once to comment you should be able to comment without me approving you from now on.

  4. Not a million times a day — maybe just 999,999. ;-)

    Thanks for noticing — and reading.

  5. Hehe, I meant that in the best possible way :)

    Wait, were you doing a vanity search? ;)

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