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26 September 2009 ~ View Comments

The Macberry Files: In the Trenches

Wordle: Sam's LifeBlogging seems like a sweet gig. Mostly, when I tell people I’ve just met that I aspire to be a work full time in the social media realm one day, I get a lot of raised eyebrows, as most still think of blogging as leisure, or a way to let express themselves during their off time. I can practically see the “You gotta be kidding” thought bubbles pop up above their head. But my absence here during the past few months has definitely made me realize that to be a blogger, a good blogger too, takes lots of work. There’s not many people who have John Chow‘s God-given penmanship, so the rest of us have to work at it. On an average day, I realize that I don’t want to work for 8 hours, walk home, and then re-live it here. All my body wants to do is sit on the couch and play some darn Halo or something. It’s been hard to keep up with the latest ways that Facebook is copying Twitter, who’s getting cut on the Canucks, the latest social media rave, and figuring what to eat for dinner at the same time. Anybody with a full time job is most likely thinking boo-***ing-hoo at this point, but hey – it’s true, this is typical post-teenage denial stuff. The more I realize how much work it is though, makes me want to work even harder, because like the cliche says, no pain no gain.

As for what I have been up to? In the past few weeks, I have moved down the street, helped launch a new b2b program, created a new blog for my great roommate and spent the rest of my time catching up on news with my phones. It’s been tiring, but fun. I have still yet to install that Snow Leopard thing everybody’s been tweeting about, and I haven’t touched a basketball in months and need to call Bell to cancel their service (because it sucks). So as I keep trucking along, I just want to thank everybody for their support for visiting here and that I am not giving up here. I still have many plans and through time, they will come to fruition, but it may be a little quiet on the forefront here for a while as I re-org and create some processes. Until next time, I’ll catch you on twitter and facebook.

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03 May 2009 ~ View Comments

The Macberry Files: Arriving

Just Me and my Macbook

If you have been following my twitterfeed, you might have noticed me rambling on about some plane and missing Vancouver and what not. Your suspicions are correct; I have left my beloved town of Vancouver in the middle of an epic playoff run (the impact of my departure was immediately felt as Vancouver lost its first playoff game last night) to head east for four months to work with a little Canadian company called Research in Motion. This trip is special for me because it is my first time leaving home alone, but also because Waterloo is the town I was born in so that puts an extra oompf to this whole trip. I’m nostalgic and excited at the same time so all summer long, I’m going to be providing blogs and vlog updates with everybody here about the crazies I’ve been up to and what cool stuff (tech or otherwise) I find along the way. Already, I’ve noticed the the coke here is less sweet (are they using splenda or something?) and even big chain stores like Shoppers Drug Mart close at 6pm on a Saturday. But until I meet some people, its going to be just me and my Macbook in berry land.

The Macberry files is afoot!

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