Tim Keller

I’d like to formally announce that Amy and I are engaged, and we both couldn’t be happier!

On December 24th, 2008 I picked Amy up after work and took her to Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens for a picnic. It was perfect. I had the ring hidden safely away in a bag, a one-of-a-kind 18ct Yellow Gold and 0.56ct Diamond ring which I had only collected from the designer that morning!

We climbed a particularly beautiful rolling hill of lawn and threw a picnic blanket down. She had not idea of what was about to transpire.

Several minutes later, to the surprise of Amy and several picnic’ers who had watched me get down on one knee, I had a fiancé! I called our waiting parents who had been hiding out, awaiting our call. They brought up large amounts of Champagne and we toasted the best day of our lives thus far!

Here’s to an awesome 2009! I’ll be posting here as we plan the wedding!

Merry Christmas

Tim

Congratulations Barack Obama!

What did Joe the Plumber just say to Meghan McCain?

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

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.

• http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/win7_preview.asp
• http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/win7_preview_02.asp
• http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/win7_m3_screens_02.asp

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

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.