{"id":625,"date":"2009-09-09T16:09:23","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T14:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=625"},"modified":"2009-09-09T16:08:32","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T14:08:32","slug":"pigeon-1-telkom-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/pigeon-1-telkom-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigeon &#8211; 1; Telkom &#8211; 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=615\">previous post<\/a>, a Pigeon raced against Telkom today to transfer 4GB of data over a distance of about 70km. <\/p>\n<p>To no-one&#8217;s (well maybe the management of Telkom \ud83d\ude42 ) surprise, Winston, the pigeon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/Content\/SciTech\/News\/1132\/1bc8b09e39b043928317dc769d4196e4\/09-09-2009-12-23\/Pigeon_beats_Telkom\">won<\/a> by a lot of bandwidth to spare.&nbsp; It took Winston only 2 hours 6 minutes and 57 seconds to transfer the data from Howick to Hillcrest.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to Winston, hope he got a nice bowl of yummy seeds to munch on.&nbsp; The question now remains &#8211; will carrying data between Howick and Hillcrest become Winston&#8217;s full-time job.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/winston\" rel=\"tag\">winston<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/pigeon\" rel=\"tag\">pigeon<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/bandwidth\" rel=\"tag\">bandwidth<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/race\" rel=\"tag\">race<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/telkom\" rel=\"tag\">telkom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in a previous post, a Pigeon raced against Telkom today to transfer 4GB of data over a distance of about 70km. To no-one&#8217;s (well maybe the management of Telkom \ud83d\ude42 ) surprise, Winston, the pigeon won by a <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/pigeon-1-telkom-0\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Pigeon &#8211; 1; Telkom &#8211; 0<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[494,485,491,239,493],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-africa","category-technical","tag-bandwidth","tag-pigeon","tag-race","tag-telkom","tag-winston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}