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While cleaning out my “My Documents” folder in Windows today, I stumbled upon a poem. I don’t know when it was written as the date associated with the file properties is inaccurate. So without further ado here is my poem simple titled, “FuncoLand”:

“Funcoland”

There is a place I work
It is a place I play
Its name is in multi-colored letters
People come here for
Games
Pokémon Crap
And to bother me
I sit in a chair and
Run my fingers through my hair
And breathe artifical air
My boss Wooza is from the Bronx
And he’s lived a life of hard knocks
We sell cleaners and such
And get annoyed very much
I love this place
This place of employment
I would go there everyday cause
It gives me much enjoyment

I doubt any of you that read my blog still even recall what I am about to reminisce about. Shortly after I started SeanPiotrowski.net in its current form of a blog, two friends of mine, Greg Coleman & Ryan Christie embarked on their own blog journey. Their blog was called TheWard. It was a professionally coded, constantly updated, and it was the central hub of a blogging community that in my opinion has never been duplicated. The posts were hilarious, controversial, & they often featured the graphical talents of Greg Coleman. The height of this Universe was in the years 2002 and 2003. There were a lot of memories made and I always felt that TheWard deserved to be archived and preserved for its accomplishments. However TheWard never got its shrine and it all but faded into obscurity…

Today, Greg and I were chatting on Google Talk and he asked me if I ever heard of Archive.org. Of course I had! He just discovered it. During our conversation I went and plugged in the old URL: www.theward.net Greg had already beaten me to this idea as he had told me he spent a considerable amount of time with it yesterday. As I began clicking through I realized that they had captured a sizable chunk of what TheWard was all about, especially during its most important years. Like catching up with an old friend, I was reminded of things I had completely forgotten about. It was a wonderful experience for me.
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Chris Hastings, creator of Dr. McNinja and President of Raptor Bandit Industries, gave a lecture at Rider University on Oct. 26, 2009. This lecture was on “The Business of Web Comics” and was a kick off to further study into E-Commerce for my Undergraduate Management Information Systems class. The lecture went really well, and I think it served as a great jumping off point for our chapter on E-Commerce.

Thanks again to Chris for taking the train on down to visit us in Lawrenceville, NJ for the morning.

Be sure to visit him at: www.drmcninja.com

 WORDPRESS. You all know I’ve been a fan of this blogging platform for quite sometime. WordPress released a while back a new version of its platform called WordPress MU . WordPress allows for hundreds of WordPress blogs to be run off of the same sever installation. From an administrative end this makes life much easier as you only have to upload one copy of a theme, one plug-in, etc. if you want to make it available for all of your users. Thinking from a University stand-point, it allows a department to offer “websites” to its students, faculty, and staff with great ease. Recently one of my co-workers, John Lemasney, made a pitch to the IT Dept. at Rider University on WordPress MU and its benefits to a University such as Rider. He did a wonderful job presenting it and it can be viewed here.