I thought I’d dazzle you all today with a pic of my cubicle at work – or at least the clean half of it.

I thought the photo montage was kindof clever when I came up with it. I printed off a bunch of pictures I thought were cool (like 12 cents each at [...]

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Every month at bitHeads someone’s chosen to run the ‘Charity of the Month’ – and my straw got drawn again unexpectedly this summer. I found an awesome charity doing local community development work. The Somerset West Community Health Centre were raising funds to turn a dingy unsafe lot into a community-friendly playground, and well… here [...]

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Our walking challenge at work is over! Collectively we’ve walked about twice the distance between Ottawa and Easter Island, where our mascots the Maori stone (bit)heads come from. I personally put in 1,500,000 steps over about 100 days, putting me in around 15,000 a day on average. It would have been higher except for a [...]

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At the bitHeads annual kickoff meeting last week I was surprised and honoured to receive the prestigious “Rookie of the Year” award for 2008. It’s kindof a big deal – there were a lot of deserving new hires this year and it makes me feel really awesome that my managers (I’ve worked for nearly all [...]

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I got to go see my first NHL game from the posh bitHeads box seats! It was superstar treatment all night – full service and fully catered. I even got the first-class parking directly outside the Scotiabank Place doors (next to the player’s family parking). Unfortunately the food and parking was about the only thing [...]

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In a quirk of incredibly bad timing, my service provider accidentally blew up my blog, again, plunging you all into radio silence while huge important life-changing things happened to me. I could approach all of this stuff as individual posts later, but here’s at least the gist of what’s going on:
I’ve left MTS and am [...]

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