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Besides being a great game between two high quality teams, last night’s 17-14 victory by the New York Giants over the New England Patriots was a nice little victory for Karma.

As someone who grew up playing team sports, I’ve always had a strong sense of teamwork and sportsmanship.

Being a Pittsburgh Steeler fan, I have always rooted for the AFC representative in the Super Bowl and even though they had handed us a few heartbreaking losses over the years, I did have a lot of respect for the New England Patriots team play and excellent coaching.

I still have a lot of respect for the Patriots as a team and I still think that Bill Belichick is a top notch coach.

However, after the whole “spygate” issue, I lost a lot of respect for Coach Belichick as a leader when it comes to sportsmanship and fair play.

I would never pretend to know or understand the amount of pressure professional coaches and athletes are under to be the best, but Belichick’s early season bust for cheating is just another sign of what’s wrong with high profile sports today.

The fact that Belichick claims that he simply “misinterpreted” the rules about videotaping the other teams sideline is such an insult to everyone’s intelligence and shows cowardice and a complete lack of personal accountability on his behalf.

Given the pressure and intense scrutiny all of these guys are under, I’m not foolish enough to think that Coach Belichick is the only head coach who cheated to get an edge.  He’s just the one who got caught.

If he had owned up to it, I may have still had some respect for him as a leader.  As it is, I still think he is a brilliant coach and knows the game inside and out.  But his cowardly excuse for doing what he did shows a total lack of character.

Congratulations to the New York Giants for their Super Bowl victory and congratulations to the real winner in this year’s Super Bowl, karma.  It’s nice to see justice served.

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Well, I’m not an old man yet, but I sure feel like it with some of the technology out there that I don’t have or use. No Ipod or any other MP3 player. No camcorder, digital or otherwise. No laptop yet. I’m not working at home with a wireless router. My home stereo is about 18 years old. Etc., etc.

At least I have satellite.

My better half has been fine using the old fashioned throw away cameras to take occasional snapshots for the holidays and other gatherings.

I used to be a real gadget guy but have somehow become an old stick in the mud set in my ways.

For my first digital camera, I didn’t feel the need to go all out and get the top of the line model that will be outdated in another month anyway. So I picked up a Sanyo VPC-S750 at Walmart this afternoon.

The biggest issue I saw when reading reviews after I came home was poor battery life. As is often the case, the reviews were mixed, but had more positive than negative.  So far, I haven’t used it enough to have that problem.

One reviewer also mentioned significant issues with the picture quality and he posted the pictures to prove his point.  They looked terrible.  I’ve taken a few shots and put them in the computer with the SD card and the picture quality was good, so he may have had a defective camera.

For those looking for reviews on the Sanyo VPC-S750, I had a hard time finding any reviews other than at Walmart’s website.

I’ll play around a little more and see if it’s a keeper. Now maybe we can finally sell some of the junk we have around here.

Hopefully this not so old man can figure it out.

In my time on the web, I’ve noticed many of us in the internet marketing world suffer from this horrible affliction.

If you are anything like me, you tend to come up with one great idea after another(well, at least we think they are great ideas )

The main problem with our “genius” is that we often tend to leave many of our projects unfinished as we jump from one to the next. I know I have a veritable minefield of unfinished work and ideas.

As I was searching on the net for others with this affliction, I stumbled across Andrew Wee’s article Internet Marketing Attention Deficit Disorder And A Solution?

I can’t come up with any better advice than Mr. Wee.

The main point of his article and advise is quite simple:

• • Go with the flow: You know you’re not cut out to do one thing for weeks on end, so don’t fight it. Break your day up into several pieces. Focus on product development in the morning (or whenever your peak periods might be), talk to joint venture partners or strategic partners as you feel you’re moving out of your zone. Answer email and tackle customer support issues during your downtime.
  • Focus, focus, focus: This was a major problem for me initially when I was doing consulting. You can take on 20 projects, and deliver below your optimal performance on all of them. OR you could charge a premium and work with your preferred 3-5 clients. If you work in performance incentives and revenue share, you might end up doing better with a select few, rather than attempt to take on the market.
  • Recalibrate, reorient and refocus: Take time out to audit your efforts. Is what you’re doing helping you move toward where you want to be? Evalute and do the equivalent of “testing and tracking” in your business. Jettison projects that are stumbling or backsliding. Declutter experts say there is limited space in your life. If you cut and clear away stuff that isn’t helping you (people, projects and places), you’ll free up more “space” for new things to come in.

Personally, I’m trying to hold off as much as I can on my next “great idea” and am working on what I’ve already started.

Some ideas I’ll be scrapping.  And the rest I will develop as fully as possible.