Posted by Benjamin Close on May 18, 2009 under Life | 
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Wow how time flies! Carly is now 159weeks pregnant and now definately showing. Last week we had the first real scan and got to see hands and feet, the bub was quite active and gave the radiologist a hard time! Below are a few photos of both the bub and the expectant Mum to be!
Posted by Benjamin Close on May 8, 2009 under FreeBSD | 5 Comments to Read
This page documents the current state of play for booting the root filesystem (/) off a zfs zpool under FreeBSD, using a standard master boot record (MBR) and a standard partition table. The aim was to be able to have a dual boot system for my laptop using the standard FreeBSD quick selection boot loader. [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on April 27, 2009 under Country Living | Be the First to Comment
Well after a few hickups things are all on track. Since the last update Carly and I have officially sold our house, gone through settlement and are Living with Carly’s Parent’s John and Denise. At the same time we have got Development Approval from the Tea Tree Gully Council for our house, the shed and [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on April 13, 2009 under Life | Be the First to Comment
On Friday 3rd April 2009, Sam our little black and white cat was hit by a car and died 🙁 Sam was a loving little cat who loved the outdoors. Often found under bushes he had a little gallop in his run and walked bravely like a lion – despite being a scaredy cat. Bought [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on April 1, 2009 under Money | Read the First Comment
Following on from my last article about making money online, this one starts to look at ways that exist to make money online. By far, the most visible way to make money online is using advertising. Advertising is literally everywhere. However there seems to be lots of ways to make money online. Below are a [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on under Life | Be the First to Comment
Well it’s official, Carly and I are having a baby! It’s been a while before we could make this post as we didn’t want people to find out before we let our family know and with ‘Mum Close’ being in Western Australia on holiday, that took a little longer than expected! But finally we can [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on under Mythtv | Read the First Comment
This documents my progress settting up mythtv on FreeBSD.
Posted by Benjamin Close on March 12, 2009 under Money | 4 Comments to Read
Hello and welcome to the first article in a continuing series about trying to earn money online. First a little background. My name is Benjamin Close, I have a good day job working as a Research Associate in the Wearable Computer Lab at the University of South Australia and a secondary job working as an [..more..]
Posted by Benjamin Close on March 6, 2009 under Projects, UniSA | 3 Comments to Read
One project I’ve been working on with fellow members of the Wearable Computer Lab (WCL) has been a project we’ve called ‘Snappy’. Snappy is simply an old Canon IXUS camera that is connected to an old Dell Laptop. It was setup to monitor the construction of a new building here at the University of South [..more..]
