Posted by Benjamin Close on November 18, 2009 under Country Living | 
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In building our new house we decided to install a solar hot water system. The reasons for this was simple. We have no mains electricity and only LPG bottled gas. Hence continually heating water would have cost us a lot. Solar hot water on the other hand has an upfront cost but substantially reduces the [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on October 20, 2009 under Country Living | 5 Comments to Read
Wow, how time flies! It’s been almost 2 months since I last wrote about the progress of our house and lots has happened in that time. Our supervisor has been absolutely awsome, great to talk too, willing to listen and also willing to deal with concerns that we have had. Actually most people that have [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on September 21, 2009 under Country Living | Read the First Comment
As of 16th Of September 2009, at 5.36pm Carly and I are proud parents of little Mitchell Zachary Close. Born 37.2 weeks, 2.69kg (5 lb, 15oz) at the North Easter Community Hospital. Our lives have now changed for ever – in the best possible way! Checkout some of the photos we have of Mitchell:
Posted by Benjamin Close on August 27, 2009 under Life | Be the First to Comment
Wow how time flies! Would you believe our little bub is due in only 5 weeks time (4th October). Carly can feel the little one kick lots more – sometimes even wonders if they are going to be a boxer! Below you can see the happy Mum to be – looking fantastic!
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The frame is now up! As of today the frame is finished an the windows are starting to go in, starting with the bay window at the front.
Posted by Benjamin Close on August 18, 2009 under Country Living | Be the First to Comment
After a couple weeks with little happening, it seems things are finally starting to pick up. Last week saw the shed start to go up, and the house being rubbled and the septic tank going in. It’s nice to finally have the rubble in place. We’ve been told quite a few times it’s too wet [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on August 12, 2009 under ClearChain, Computers | Read the First Comment
Recently the server hosting clearchain.com (aka Leo) has been having disk io errors. This has had me quite perplexed. You see Leo is a virtual machine running on redundant hardware as part of an VMWare ESX cluster. Hence whilst I can understand slow performance and delayed access at some times, disk IO’s don’t make sense. [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on August 6, 2009 under Computers, OpenSource, UniSA | 4 Comments to Read
Working out that VNC can put a client ONHOLD, making it look like the server has frozen
Posted by Benjamin Close on August 3, 2009 under Country Living | Read the First Comment
With winter well underway, it’s time for another update. Since the last blog post, quite a lots has happened. Format has poured the slab and hence our house is taking shape. I really do feel for the folks who poured the slab. I went up there and saw it taking place. The day was an [..more..]
