{"id":112,"date":"2008-11-13T23:25:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T13:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/blog\/people\/benjamin-close"},"modified":"2012-06-06T11:01:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T01:31:30","slug":"benjamin-close","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/blog\/people\/benjamin-close","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Benjamin Close<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/blog\/images\/\/2008\/11\/BenjaminClose1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-693 alignnone\" title=\"BenjaminClose\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/blog\/images\/\/2008\/11\/BenjaminClose1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Founder of ClearChain, my expertise remain in computing. A Unix fan from way back I&#8217;m a\u00a0<a title=\"FreeBSD\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/blog\/categories\/computers\/freebsd\">FreeBSD<\/a> advocate with skills in most areas of computing. A programmer in C, C++, Java and more; I&#8217;ve writting some quite impressive applications including <a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/wearables.unisa.edu.au\/arquake\/\" href=\"http:\/\/wearables.unisa.edu.au\/projects\/arquake\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">ARQuake<\/a>, various 3D Visualisation programs, networking and file utilities, database and web applications and have also delved in to\u00a0<a title=\"Wpi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/blog\/posts\/wpi\">kernel drivers<\/a>. My hobbies include walking, watching movies, gardening, softball coaching and more.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to contact me try one of the contacts below:<\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid #aaaaaa; margin: 1em 1em 1em 0pt; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% #f9f9f9; border-collapse: collapse;\" border=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Name<\/td>\n<td>Benjamin Simon Close<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Email<\/td>\n<td>Benjamin.Close [at] ClearChain.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Home Page<\/td>\n<td><a class=\"external free\" title=\"http:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/blog\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Address<\/td>\n<td>677A One Tree Hill Road Gould Creek SA, Australia 5114<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Phone<\/td>\n<td>&#8211;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mobile<\/td>\n<td>+61 417 525 843 (any time)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>PGP Key<\/td>\n<td>Fingerprint: F00D C83D 5F7E 5561 DF91 B74D E602 CAA3 4842 B5B4 <a class=\"external free\" title=\"http:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/~benjsc\/public.asc\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/%7Ebenjsc\/public.asc\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/~benjsc\/public.asc<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>If you would like to find out more about me, please check out my\u00a0<a title=\"CV\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/blog\/people\/benjamin-close\/bens-cv\">CV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To see what I&#8217;m up to check my\u00a0<a title=\"Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/blog\/\">Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If your more academically incline, checkout my\u00a0<a title=\"Publications\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/blog\/people\/benjamin-close\/benjamin-closes-publications\">Publications<\/a> list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Close Founder of ClearChain, my expertise remain in computing. A Unix fan from way back I&#8217;m a\u00a0FreeBSD advocate with skills in most areas of computing. A programmer in C, C++, Java and more; I&#8217;ve writting some quite impressive applications including ARQuake, various 3D Visualisation programs, networking and file utilities, database and web applications and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/blog\/people\/benjamin-close\"> <font size=-2>[..more..]<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-112","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Benjamin Close - ClearChain<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/blog\/people\/benjamin-close\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/blog\/people\/benjamin-close\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/blog\/people\/benjamin-close\",\"name\":\"Benjamin Close - 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