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Posted on: September 10, 2009 2:46 PM, by Greg Laden
If you are interested in the flu (and you are) I strongly recommend that you carefully read "The end of flu season" at Effect Measure. Here.
Check this out:
An IT company in Durban, South Africa, was so pissed off at the performance of their ADSL connection that they actually decided to test whether or not data could actually be transferred faster by carrier pigeon. Guess who won...
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Also note that according to CNN the total donations since the comment now total around $400,000: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/10/wilsons-opponent-raises-100k/
Good job, Joe.
Posted by: Joshua Zelinsky | September 10, 2009 4:59 PM
The fact that transferring data via a removable storage device is actually faster in lots of cases is not at all surprising. Amusing 'tests' pointing it our are not only fun, but have a long history and serve as a good reminder of this easy to forget fact. (And good bludgeon to hit silly managers over the head with on occasion.)
Posted by: travc | September 11, 2009 3:53 AM