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Wherein the author discusses a big tool in his day-to-day workflow.

Wherein the author muses on making choices in different environments and scenarios.

Wherein the author posts a longer message than Twitter can handle to note frustration and seek the reasons behind that frustration.

Wherein the author quotes Rachel Maddow such that he can remember this and possibly refer to it later.

Time is a limited resource. Through hard work, cleve investing you can always get more money. Money brings power and other worldly things. Money can also bring you friends (though not actual friendship) but nothing in this world gives you more time.

So, today I am quitting one of the major time sinks in my life: RSS news feeds. I spend quite a bit of time each day trying to keep myself informed about a wide variety of topics: gaming, politics, finance, media, geek culture and a few other random things. Today I am voluntarily opting for time over knowledge.

I'm pretty sure very few people visit this site, but for those who do I'm doing a little work on it and migrating from Wordpress to Drupal. Please pardon the dust.

Wherein the author publishes the correct way to do things for the benefit of the community and his own failing memory.

Wherein the author writes something down so he doesn't have to remember in order to help him the next time he realises bash has forgotten something important.

Recently there was a Freakonomics podcast that argued more money spent during a political campaign does not equate to more success for that campaign.  I cannot refute their premise because a) I'm sure the statistical analysis they used is very rigorous and b) it ignores two very important other questions.

1. How successful are State or National elections that do NOT spend millions of dollars (i.e. "Can a poor guy actually win an election?")

Wherein the author imparts knowledge regarding how to globally search and replace items on the command line instead of replacing only a single instance.