Ready For The Concrete

Posted by Benjamin Close on June 29, 2009 under Country Living | Be the First to Comment

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. Format Homes have dug the trenches have been dug, the piping layed, the plastic’s down and so’s all the wire mesh. The house [..more..]

www: Telepathy Wiki cleaned up & catchaps added

Posted by Benjamin Close on under FreeDesktop | Be the First to Comment

In an effort to cleanup spam telepathy wiki has been shifted to annarchy, upgraded and catchpa’s added. All spam pages have now been removed.

Affilate Marketing – The Guide Lines

Posted by Benjamin Close on June 25, 2009 under Money | Read the First 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, [..more..]

Caldav calendar & icalserver

Posted by Benjamin Close on June 24, 2009 under Computers, FreeBSD, OpenSource | 2 Comments to Read

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 [..more..]

The House Begins

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)

www: libopenraw, moin upgrade, moves gabe->annarchy

Posted by Benjamin Close on June 11, 2009 under FreeDesktop | Be the First to Comment

As part of the continued server cleanup plan, the libopenraw website has moved from gabe to annarchy. In the process it also got upgraded to a later version of moin to enable catpha’s.

user: Pavel Beňak (aries) Joins Portland (xdg-utils)

Posted by Benjamin Close on May 29, 2009 under FreeDesktop | Be the First to Comment

Please welcome  Pavel Beňak (aries)  to the FD.o crew. Pavel will be working on portland and xdg-utils.

user: Joel Bosvend – GSOC Input Redirection

Posted by Benjamin Close on under FreeDesktop | Read the First Comment

Please welcome Joel Bosvend (b0le) to the FD.o ranks. Joel will be working on Input Redirection in the Xserver as part of a Google Summer of Code project. Peter Hutterer is his mentor.

www: spectre & swfdec moin wiki’s upgraded/cleaned up

Posted by Benjamin Close on May 28, 2009 under FreeDesktop | Be the First to Comment

To combat spam both the spectre and swfdec wiki’s have been upgraded to a later version of moin. Capta’s have been put in place and all existing spam has been removed. Sorry, probably a few broken links due to this change but shouldn’t be too hard to clean up.

Using Google Adsense to make money

Posted by Benjamin Close on May 25, 2009 under Money | 5 Comments to Read

It’s been a while since my last blog post on making money online but it doesn’t mean I’ve not been thinking about how to do it. Past blog articles have indicated some ways to make money online but never really talked about how effective the various methods are. Well this blog article talks about one [..more..]