Posted by Benjamin Close on June 29, 2009 under Life | 
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Wow how time flies. Carly is now 24 weeks pregnant, only 12 weeks to go! Getting a little larger and bub is kicking a little more now. Carly’s also counting down the days until she quits work! Checkout the photos below:
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It’s amazing how things happen quickly when they get started. After nothing really happening for quite a few weeks, things have really started moving. The house is moving on quite a bit. The trenches have been dug, the piping layed, the plastic’s down and so’s all the wire mesh. The house is ready for the concrete. We expect that to be poured in the next day or so. Check out the picks below:
Posted by Benjamin Close on June 25, 2009 under Money | Be the First to Comment
Over the last few months, I’ve been doing a bit of research into Affiliate marketing. For those that don’t know, affiliate marketing is the process of selling a merchant’s goods with you doing the advertising.
Sounds simple enough and there is a number of great programs out there that make affiliate marketing a breeze. However, the more you read, the more you discover there is a set sequence to create a website which ends up being profitable with affiliate marketing.
The steps, as nicely writting up in a document from sitesell.com (http://www.ezau.com/dl/AffMasters.pdf) seem to be:
Sounds simple really. Though in practice it must take a lot of time. I can see how once you have high traffic to a site and GOOD content you get visitors. Clearchain for instance slowly has seen traffic increasing and likewise the amount of clicks and therefore revenue increase – and Clearchain isn’t even designed to be a niche site, more a blog of various things that the people of Clearchain work on.
Hence it’s now time to try out the info I’ve read. Introducing WattsitUse.com, the niche site related to evaluating anything power related.
Posted by Benjamin Close on June 24, 2009 under Computers, FreeBSD, OpenSource | Be the First to Comment
For quite a while now I’ve been using Apple’s ICal server on FreeBSD and Sunbird/Lightning as a front end to the calendar. However, one thing that has always annoyed me was the lack of a web frontend to my calendars.
Well today after searching on a completely different topic I found a javascript front end to caldav. After only a few minutes setup I had the frontend up and running. Sadly however, It didn’t play happy with ICalServer. A little debugging of the caldav REPORT request and I had it querying correctly.
Now there was valid data populating the table… or was it. Looking a little closer there were bugs with the reoccurring events and also with the lastMonday function. A quick fix (after 20mins finding them) and now the calendar works great!
Best thing about it is I can now have a public caldav calendar which everyone can view whilst being able to update thing directly on my own writable version of the caldav calendar.
Posted by Benjamin Close on June 19, 2009 under Country Living | Be the First to Comment
It’s been a little while since the below photos were taken and sadly not much has happened since they were due to the weather. However, our house has been started! (well as of the Thursday 4/6/2009)
