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An Unquiet Day: September 2009
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009. Writing for a newspaper in Johannesburg you digest many weird crime stories. After a while, you think you've seen it all - kids with Samurai swords, mining tycoons full of bullets, serial killers, etc. But this story ( post below. Had me grinning with glee as I typed it up yesterday morning. I'd love to hear your comments on it. If you can't open it, click here. My favourite is the detective saying that a hit man worth his salt would have charged more than R2000. I'm not su...
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An Unquiet Day: Pigeon VS Telkom
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009. News just in: Winston the pigeon has just won a race to deliver 4GB of data - beating a painfully slow download on a Telkom line. Winston, an 11-month-old bird, set out from Howick to Hillcrest (both in Kwazulu-Natal) with a memory stick containing 4GB of data. At the same time, the company organizing the race began downloading 4GB of information on an ADSL Telkom line. When our feathery friend landed at his destination, the download was under 4% complete. If you have story ...
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Pigeon Marketing | Ant's World
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A South African blog about politics, media, marketing and Web 2.0. The challenge of crowdsourcing policy and feedback. I had never heard of The Unlimited Company. Before this morning. But then I heard about Winston and the Pigeon Race 2009. 8211; within minutes, my colleague asked if I had heard about it and I received an email about it. And, of course, it’s all over twitter. And turned it into a brilliant marketing initiative. I really hope that writes a follow up for Gottaquirk. Feed for this Entry.
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IP over Avian Carriers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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IP over Avian Carriers. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A homing pigeon can carry Internet Protocol traffic. IP over Avian Carriers. IPoAC) is a humorously intended proposal to carry Internet Protocol. Such as homing pigeons. IP over Avian Carriers was initially described in RFC 1149. A Request for Comments. RFC) issued by the Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF) written by D. Waitzman and released on April 1, 1990. It is one of several April Fools' Day RFCs. 1 April 1999). Later, in RFC 6214.