Friday Afternoon Silliness: Pigeon Race

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Pauline

Remember Winston the carrier pigeon, who carried a 4GB data stick 60 miles across South Africa in a race against ADSL service from the country’s biggest internet provider, Telkom? Now meet Margaret, who has to carry half the data over twice the distance, but is better motivated: “If you don’t get there first, I’m going to eat you.”

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2 Responses to Friday Afternoon Silliness: Pigeon Race

  1. cyberdoyle says:
    September 4, 2010 at 2:21 pm

    brilliant, well done Margaret. Wonder if we can breed from her?
    Downloading open office round here in rural digital (?) britain takes 47 hours.
    just sayin.
    chris

  2. cyberdoyle says:
    October 5, 2010 at 4:12 pm

    And following in Margaret and Winston’s wingprints comes Tref and Rory, the british pigeon v broadband race. http://www.trefor.net/2010/09/20/rory-and-tref-pigeon-v-rural-broadband-race-the-highlights-trefandrory/
    chris