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The Trip of a Lifetime…
In September of 2010, I embarked on an adventure to Europe alongside seven of my friends, which was truly the trip of a lifetime. We spent most of the month zigzagging across the continent, and our travels ultimately took us from the Sistine Chapel to Amsterdam’s Red Light District, and everywhere in between. We took the opportunity to see numerous amazing sites and masterpieces of art before finishing our journey at the 200th anniversary of Oktoberfest, which was a celebration like no other!
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Halloween Hijinx
Year after year, there is a certain magic in the air as my fellow employees prepare for the Halloween festivities at School Systems. Halloween has always been a large part of our corporate culture, and people always seem to find a way to raise the bar as to what you can expect. What might be a normal row of cubicles one day might be transformed overnight into a Bavarian forest. The unassuming office hallway? It might be haunted the next time you try to walk through it. The appropriately named Spirit Team always ensures that these activities reach a crescendo just in time for the annual costume and skit contest, and after a multiyear absence, I decided that this was the year to finally make my
triumphantreturn to our Halloween competition. -
The Hoffice
Just in time for the Comedy Central Roast of David Hasselhoff, I decided to take a trip down memory lane to revisit one of the very first office pranks that I was
allegedlyinvolved with: The Hoffice! The fun all started when a member of our softball team had the audacity to take a vacation during the middle of the season, and I explained her absence in a team email by stating that she had left for Europe to become a roadie for David Hasselhoff’s "Don’t Hassle The Hoff" music tour. Unbelievably, a member of the team actually thought that this explanation was legitimate, which kick-started years of Hoff-related jokes around the ol’ office. -
PowerSource surpasses 100,000 users
Over the last few years, one of my main projects at work has been a little website called PowerSource. Dedicated to supporting Pearson products including PowerSchool®, Chancery SMS®, PowerTeacher™, and more, PowerSource has registered users from all 50 states and over 50 countries that regularly access the site to improve their use of Pearson’s market leading educational technology solutions. In less than two years after it’s launch, PowerSource surpassed the 100,000 user mark, and currently has over 108,000 registered users.
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Display your latest tweet on a Wordpress blog
Since Facebook has basically made it impossible to get the RSS feed for a user’s status updates, I have decided to switch the mechanism for status updates on SamSpencer.com to Twitter. This article is just a quick explanation of how to display your latest tweets on a WordPress blog without any plugins. This will be accomplished by using a RSS feed that Twitter provides, and consuming that feed with the RSS Widget that is provided with WordPress.