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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.

FreeCol is a turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization, and similar to Civilization. The objective of the game is to create an independent nation. It was Sourceforge's Project of the Month for February, 2007.

Andrea reminded me recently about playing old DOS games that she's found on the net. I've been doing some searching online trying to find some of the old games that I used to play. Here's a site called Abandonia where I found a number of them. Heck, they even have Sword of the Samurai for download.