Recently in Free Stuff Category

I didn't get a chance to blog about it ahead of time but Shane's gave out a free lunch on May 17th. It consisted of a free 1/2 rack of ribs and a free Coke Zero. (Our local location threw in a free apple cobbler as well.)

I got there about 45 minutes before opening thinking I was going to be too late to get any free food but I was happy (and surprised) to discover that I was 5th in line.

I put up some photos of the event in the gallery.

Upstart Blogger is giving away the domain name, spamchow.com if you can come up with a good way to use it. I've gone ahead and made my entry.  For the last few months due to all the problems we have had with Akismet, (long story that I would rather not get into.) we've been using a reworked version of the old wp-spamassassin plugin, not just for wordpress but for other platforms as well.  I've been debating on making it available to the general public and/or turning it into a service.

Hattip: Joshua Goodwin.

It's strange that no one is blogging about this but Hardee's is doing Free Coffee on Monday's for the time being.  I don't see anything on their website about the promotion but there's signs up all over their stores.  They're probably doing this to promote their new Channel Islands Roasting Company coffee that they have introduced.  There's no mention on how long this will last and the employees I asked didn't know either.

I got my free cup this morning.  I'm debating on hitting them again on the way home.

I met a very nice young lady by the name of Rachel at the free breakfast over at Newell Presbyterian Church this past Sunday and she took some pictures for me. (Actually I think her mom took most of the group shots.)

Gallery

I've gotten a chance to sort most of the other photos as well. I need to sit down and write descriptions though for them some time soon.

OK, the domain renewal issue got fixed for this domain and it's been renewed so I guess you're all stuck with me for another year.  Gotta admit though that I'm still annoyed that it took four support tickets, a number of comments on a number of blogs, and general fussing to get it resolved and I've still never received anything besides a general "It should work" bit at least it's been resolved now.  My complaint about Automattic employee conduct from back in June is still not resolved and I doubt it will ever been answered but at least I still have this domain.

Anyway, I wanted to make a quick plug for assembla.com.  They offer free trac hosting along with a system for such extra features like tickets, wikis, etc for programming projects.  I use it a lot for our own projects and as well as keeping base installs for open source projects as well as the pre installed upgrades and plugins for our clients.  Makes life a lot easier and we don't have to host trac ourselves.

edit: One extra feature that you get for free is that you can mark any project as private.  That's why I'm not giving folks any links to our own tracs as most of them have non-GPL'ed code that we're not allowed to give out.

Breakfast was cool.  Had eggs, bacon, and biscuits.  I think I was the only non-church person there so i had to introduce myself a number of times but I didn't mind.  I walk by the church twice every day when I head over to UNCC.  Didn't get any pictures as my batteries died with the other breakfast this morning under the bridge.

I finally got a chance to look over the most read posts for January.  I probably should do some sort of Top Post widget in the sidebar. (edit: Done now.)

- Download Dragon Magazine and it's Part #2 article.
- Mac Desktop Wallpapers
- 50 Things NOT to do at Hogwarts (And I feel bad about that as it's not even mine.)
- Robot Chicken: Charlie Brown And The Great Pumpkin
- Download Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows? (You can but not with those links.)
- Family Guy Videos - Rock Lobster
- Movable Type 4.1 gets released (*shrug* All I said was that it was released.)
- Crash on Volturnus - Chapter 1 (I really should go back and work on that. I liked writing that stuff.)
- Pairings (Another old Daria fanfiction piece that I had written way back when.)
- How to stop the irritating "Updating your computer is almost complete - Restart Now?" message

Just a quick note that Newell Presbyterian Church located here in Charlotte (I'd say it's in Newell but that's what they list as their mailing address) is having free breakfasts every Sunday morning from Feb 10th until March 23rd for the community starting at 9:15am.  I should be there tomorrow eating if anyone is in the area.

As an aside, I'm going to have to switch domains again for this site.  Wordpress.com is not allowing me to renewal the domain and refuse to discuss the problem with me.