Welcome\\
Tim is an entrepreneur, network engineer and web developer based at Umoya Networks in Cape Town, South Africa. He's intimately involved in VSAT infrastructure and services roll-out throughout Africa. He also is the lead developer on ChirpSchool.

Cleverness\\
B.Sc Computer Science & Psychology (UCT),

Interests
Opensource, DSLR Photography, System Design, Apple Mac, Web2.0 services, Ubuntu and Debian Linux, C#, PHP, and MySQL.

Reading\\
Good to Great (Jim Collins), Working the Wheel (Martin Brundle), Losing my Virginity (Richard Branson), The 5 Love Languages (Gary Chapman), The Blue Nowhere (Jeffery Deaver), and The 7 habits of highly effective people (Stephen Covey)
“Exam Question: “What is an array?”
Student: “It is something in programming!”
Me: *Face-palm*”
Stephen Fry wishes GNU a very happy 25th birthday. You just can’t help but be completely blown away by Stephen Fry’s awesomeness :)
Congratulations Barack Obama!
Congratulations Barack Obama!

President-elect, Barack Obama’s acceptance speech

Joe the Plumber and McCain's daughter

What did Joe the Plumber just say to Meghan McCain?


Please vote for Obama posted to 12seconds.tv

Things I want to play with after exams

  • Firebird Database
  • OpenAFS (Andrew FileSystem)
  • eJabberd
  • Ruby
  • Mechanize
  • Rsync and RSnapshot
  • MySQL Replication

Windows 7

For the first time in years I think I may be excited about Windows (in particular Windows 7). Until I get some time to do my own review of the M3 pre-beta, here are links to some of my favourite links.

Gotta love the way John is completely thrown by Obama’s assertion of “Zero”. Watch it!

Cabinet Crisis

I’m gonna be blunt. Jacob Zuma is a bloody prick - and one who has probably just plunged our country into 10 years of political disaster.

Let’s tally up who has resigned their position in accordance with President Thabo Mbeki’s resignation yesterday (22 September):

1. Deputy President
2. Minister of Defence
3. Minister of Finance
4. Minister in the Presidency, Dr. Essop Pahad
5. Minister of Intelligence
6. Minister of Correctional Services
7. Minister of Public Enterprises
8. Minister of Science and Technology
9. Minister of Public Works
10. Minister of Provincial and Local Government
11. Minister of Public Service and Administration

The following Deputy Ministers have also tendered their resignations:
1. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Aziz Pahad
2. Deputy Minister of Finance and
3. Deputy Minister of Correctional Services

The ever optimisitic but utterly useless ANC General Secretary today said “There is no crisis”. I’m sorry, what?

The day in which we as a democratic South Africa allow a man who hasn’t been accused of any crime to be ousted by a man who in the past 3 years has faced charges of rape, bribery, fraud and corruption is indeed a very sad day.