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I don’t show off my other passion too much on this site, but I thought I would give you a taste of what I do when I am not being a Social Medeite. I am in a band calle the “Trailer Kings” and we play all around the Midwest.

This video was shot last week at the studio of the new Full Compass Campus. They had a live web event over the weekend and we were part of it. We did 5 songs – This one: Mary Janes’ Last Dance by Tom Petty.

Enjoy!

2007 – The first podcast was produced with the new format. Before then I was working on podcasts in the independent music area. This switch felt right and helped me find a passion. The show was called “The Show” at first – Geekazine didn’t come along until a month later. Since then, 106 Podcasts, 150 Quickcasts, 2 months of Day in Tech History and over 1000 posts, Geekazine is still going.

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So I have been contemplating what I should write about for the 1000th post. I was going through my regular motions: Getting the top 5 things you should know ready. I knew that I would find something, just not when or where. If anything, the 5 tech things would be the 1000th post.

Chris Pirillo

Then I stumbled up on Chris Pirillos site: In there he gave the best article I have read in a while. It wasn’t a literary masterpiece, but it did do something that I always say is the best thing to do.

Think.

When I started Geekazine, I was driven on Passion. I had just finished listening to a speaker at a local 2 day event. She really wasn’t that great a speaker, but she said 3 words that I have stuck with for the last 2 years. Find your Passion.

So now this article comes along and I am back in the same mode I was 2 years ago when she said Passion. Except it’s a new word.

Failure.

Chris talks about an article he came across. It goes something like this:

If you are actively pursuing your dreams, you’ve probably already experienced some level of failure. The great thing about failure is that it just means you’re not there yet, not that you won’t get there. Wear your failure on your sleeve as a badge of honor!

Matthew Lesko

It goes on to say “Successful people fail”. That is true. I remember hearing Matthew Lesko (the guy with the question marks all over his suit) say that he failed (2 businesses that turned sour on him) until he realized he was a failure. Then he got successful. He accentuated the uStream conversation by putting a big “L” on his forhead. He said that once you accept the L, then you may just succeed.

Therefore, I am a Failure. I am proud to wear that badge. I have been working on multiple podcasts for 3-4 years. I have set up a few websites including Geekazine (of course), Dorkazine, TVazine, (maybe) Sportazine (if I can get some time), mgeoffrey.com, wibands.com, the defunct Toonzed.com (link to internet archive), etc.

I would like to thank everyone in helping me become a failure. I would like to thank Frank for posting some of the 1000 articles on Geekazine. I would like to thank Todd Cochrane for having a network to help me with my Failure. I would like to thank Andy McCaskey for helping me out of the tough times where I felt too much like a failure.

I would like to thank all the people I interviewed in the last 2 years – 999 posts and almost 300 collective podcasts, with about 200 videos.

For the last 2 years I kept telling peoplethat I help – If you win, I win. Well, I was wrong on that. I think the better thing to say is: If you fail, then I fail.

Thanks to everyone for reading this 1000th post on Geekazine. I plan to do another 1000.

Todd Cochrane is heading to Japan, so he’s putting up as much video he can. Therefore, I’ve been putting up all the videos. Add in the Backchannel posts and I’ve doubled the amount of articles on Geekazine for the next few weeks. Nonetheless, I am willing to sacrifice the time to get these videos up.

I also started getting back into the swing of things. Bitstrips, Quickcasts and the Podcast. Of course, there was no LIVE Show on Monday due to a very special day of mine. I ended up spending the day celebrating. Although I took the day off, it turned out I had to get some work done. Oh well – it’s all for the cause, right?

I did 2 things I never thought I would – I ate SPAM and installed Windows 7 Beta. Last week I got a laptop up and running that I didn’t expect would work. I basically bought it for parts, but when I found out there was no problems with it, I started buying parts to turn it into the second laptop.

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I remember back in 1999 I resolved to give up Mountain Dew for a year (which I was addicted to) and reduce the amount of caffeine I drank. I also resolved to drink more water, and switch to a diet soft drink (which I couldn’t stand to drink before that). At the beggining of the new year, I finished my last Dew and went on the change. My result was that I didn’t drink Dew all year and slowly weened myself on diet soda, starting with 5% diet – 95% cola, then slowly changing the percentages.

I also remember 2001 when I told myself I would quit smoking. That didn’t last a week.

Everybody makes resolutions. Doesn’t have to be on January 1st – it can be during a birthday, anniversary, religious holiday or a life changing event. Whether your resolution helps you with health, money or whatever, it’s something you not only feel the need to change but also want to stick with changing.

A resolution is a self check – to be able to see if you can change something about oneself. With so much pressure out there, this becomes a quest to see if adversity can be overcome. Sometimes we hear about how people stuck with their resolution and a difference is seen. We also hear time and time again when people fail. Why?

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