Doing what I say

I lost the amount of time I told someone I was going to do something and I ended up not doing it. Sometimes it’s because I forget, other time I just didn’t feel like it anymore.

This is something that I have to fix. Not doing what I say is a character issue, it’s lying to someone else and myself.

BlockBuster - The old can’t compete with the new

When was the last time you rented a video in a blockbuster? It’s no surprise that this is a business that will soon be gone.

They played with the old rules too long. Companies, such as Netflix, adapted the rental business to the digital world and are winning the rental race because of it.

This is the K-mart story all over again. Some of you may remember K-mart, it used to be bigger than Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart’s idea was better and before K-mart could adapt to it, they got ran over.

Due to the information age, the biggest of business can go bankrupt to the smallest business. It’s who ever as the biggest idea that will win and the idea, more often than not, needs to be connected to the biggest thing used by the community which is the Internet and ,more recently, facebook.

For more information on the Blockbuster article, see: http://gigaom.com/video/can-anyone-save-blockbuster/

Repeated Mistakes

“Lesson are repeated until they are learned.”-Unknown

The above becomes more evident with age. Things seems to work in cycles. They may happen with different people or in different situations but there will be times where you’ll tell yourself “Hey, i’ve been here before”.

The problem I have with that is I know how it ends but I don’t know what and when I did wrong. It feels a bit like I would snap out of a dream and come back to earth. Like I was asleep all that time and suddenly woke up to see the end happening again.

I think I’m not aware of life enough yet. If I would fully realize how short life is, maybe I would put forth more effort to do different things to change the end result in order to minimize the “I’ve been here” before feeling.

I see my body age, I’m aware that I’m here for a limited amount of time but my head thinks that it’s still 12 years old. I waste a lot of time on things that don’t matter and don’t change which is probably why I do the same mistakes again.

Cadets Competition - Weird Medal System

I went to a cadet drill and band competition this week-end and it was really interesting to see all those people doing their best to win.

I didn’t really like the “medal” system they used though. There was the regular “Gold/Silver/Bronze” category but you could also win a “Silver” medal without being second place.

What they used was a point system. If you were within a certain range, you get medal “X”. That system does allow everyone to have a medal but it kind of remove the real worth of having one. If you’re not good enough, you shouldn’t win anything.

A true lost is always better than a false victory.

April Fools - A vacation for pranksters

Pranksters, like me, take April fools’s day off. Why? Why would I prank on a day that everyone expect to be pranked on?

Sure, I could make you believe that it’s the zombie apocalypse but even if it was, you wouldn’t believe me because of the day we’re in.