OneKing’sLane.com has name brand cooking, houseware and décor items at up to 70 percent off regular retail prices.  The store is having a promotion that gives newly referred members
$15.00 off a purchase.  There are plenty of items that are only 15 dollars each, which makes them free after $7.50 shipping. 

Click here to join and get a $15.00 store credit, then refer friends to earn further credits.

Families who are heading to the Mayfield Dairy pumpkin patch and corn maze  can go it for half price.  Just go online and buy tickets at HalfOffDepot.com.  The tickets are available while supplies last, they’re four dollars each and kids under age two get in free.
The Mayfield Dairy is located in Braselton, Georgia about an hour from Atlanta.

Restaurant.com gift certificates are on sale again, and there is an extra incentive to buy them.   Customers can buy a $25.00 gift certificate to one of many Atlanta restaurants for two dollars using the coupon code “AUTUMN.”  After checking out you will receive an additional ten dollar gift certificate via email within 24 hours.  The two certificates cannot be used together.

Most restaurants require a $35.00 dollar purchase in order to use your $25.00 dollar certificate.
The best way to save is keep your tab right at $35.00 so you’ll end up paying $12.00 total plus tip.
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Participating Chili’s restaurants are giving 100 percent of their profits to charity on Monday, September 27th.
The money goes to St. Jude’s Children’s Research hospital.Â
Sign up for Chili’s email club and get a coupon for a free chips and queso appetizer.

Restaurant.com is having an 80 percent off sale. $25.00 gift certificates for local restaurants are available for $2.00 when you use the code “TOUCHDOWN” at checkout.
Most restaurants require a purchase of least $35 dollars worth of food,   so out of pocket expenses  will be $12.00  plus tip for a 35 dollar meal.

Buckhead Life Restaurant Group is giving away thousands of $25.00 gift cards.   Like them on Facebook and provide your address to get the card.   The gift cards are good for dinner only at Buckhead Diner, Blue Pointe and many other restaurants in the Buckhead Life corporation.   Bistro Niko is not included.   This offer ends on  Tuesday, September 14th. 14th.

Cobb County Restaurant Week continues through next Saturday. Participating restaurants will provide fixed price lunches and dinners for $20.10.Those restaurants include The Grape and Soho on Paces Ferry, The Marietta Fish Market and Shillings On The Square.  For the full list go to the Cobb Convention and Visitor’s Bureau website.

B.J.’s Wholesale club has another free trial membership available. Customers can activate the card any time before December 31st, 2010 and use it free for sixty days.  Click here to get a BJ’s temporary membership.

The point of a website, when you get right down to it, is to provide compelling content so advertisers’ ads show up on the page and people (maybe) click on them*. Facebook has very non-intrusive ads on their site, and Twitter doesn’t have any (at the moment).

Now, I’m a power internet user — as most of my colleagues at 11Alive will attest. Instead of going to Facebook.com and Twitter.com whenever I want to know what’s going on with my friends, I go instead to my RSS application, Google Reader, and open a folder that has all of my friends’ status updates in both Twitter and Facebook.

At least, it used to. But in a single day, both Twitter and Facebook have made changes to their sites that prevent me from doing it this way. From a business standpoint, this makes perfect sense — now I actually have to go to Facebook’s site or Twitter’s site to see what’s going on.

Or do I?

Facebook and Twitter both make a big deal out of the fact that they’re great for people on the go — you can update your status and upload your pictures from your mobile phone with relative ease. I do it all the time. And, unlike their on-the-internet counterparts, the Facebook Mobile App and the TwitterFon app for iPhone have not changed their interfaces at all since I downloaded them.

So instead of going to Facebook.com, I’ll hit the little blue-and-white “F” on my phone to see what’s going on on Facebook. Instead of going to Twitter.com, I’ll hit the little blue-and-white “t” on my phone to read and reply to my friends’ tweets**. I won’t see any Facebook ads, and as for TwitterFon… well, that’s free to begin with, but it’s such a useful app to me that I’d probably pay the programmer 99 cents if he started charging.

There are a lot of ways to consume web content — going to sites, reading or watching video on your phone, aggregating everything into an RSS reader (my preferred method). But no matter what, companies should never do anything that makes their web-based consumers go somewhere where ads can’t be seen. Facebook? Twitter? You just pulled that off marvelously.

* Don’t lie. You know you’ve clicked on a few ads this month. We all do it.

** A “tweet” is a status message on Twitter, like “Josh is posting a blog on 11AliveBlogs.com”.

My friend Dennis, who Dad calls my trainer, took me around on a leash to help me get used to wearing one and being a good dog. That meant no jumping up on people. I love to jump up on people, so this wasn’t so awesome, but it’s okay. If no jumping except when told is part of being a good dog, I guess I can handle that.

My friend Shawn, who’s a producer at 11Alive, took some pictures of me on his cell phone. I’m still waiting for him to send them to Dad, but when he does, they’re totally going in my official photo gallery.

I wish I could’ve run around outside, but it wasn’t going to happen. Too rainy and wet. I think I like keeping my paws dry.

Anyway, if you didn’t get to see me on TV last night, that’s okay, because Dad’s friend Josh showed me how to embed video onto my blog:

If you want to embed it, all you have to do is click the fourth icon from the left (the little picture of a piece of paper with the end folded over) and you can embed me on your blog too! Or you can e-mail me or post links on your Facebook.

Oh, that reminds me: Chris, who works on 11Alive’s website, made a Facebook group for me! If you’re on Facebook, please join it. I’m going to get on Facebook really soon, I promise, but I’ve just been so busy and haven’t had time!

Okay, that’s all for today. Have a good weekend. I know I will!