Archive for September, 2009
Love your job!
(via email) Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana. He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to a radio station in Ft.Wayne, Indiana , who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she...
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One for the birds
Winston, the bane of Telkom, has just landed. From this Twitter feed it seems he took just under an hour (previous trial runs took around the same time) and they have the disk in hand. The ADSL download of the same amount of data (unless Telkom tries to save face an boosts the line speed)...
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The race is on!!!
Today we’ll see which is faster – pigeon or ADSL. Sadly, I’m betting on the pigeon. There is competition going for guessing the winner and winning time, see the race site and their Facebook page for details. I’m curios about Telkom’s lack of response to this potentially very embarrassing situation? Will they perhaps give that...
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Simple Analogy
An economics professor at a local college made the statement that he had never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, “OK,...
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Pigeon carrier vs. Telkom
Just saw this on WatKykJy: A South African company will be transporting data via a pigeon carrier in parrallel with it's ADSL line from a branch office to see which is faster. Test runs indicate the pigeon is the favourite to win, and they are looking at savings of R35k per month using the...
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An eye for the immaculate
From the DailyMail: “Even before his eyesight drastically deteriorated, Will Palmer was never to be seen when the housework needed doing in his home. But after a corneal transplant to correct a serious visidailn problem, the father-of-three has suddenly become obsessive about the cleaning. In fact, so profound is Mr Palmer’s new-found devotion to...
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Better late than never…
Happy Spring Day!!!
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Admitting a problem is the first step to recovery
(From IOL) “The African National Congress (ANC) views the granting by Canada of a refugee status to South African citizen Brandon Huntley on the grounds that Africans would ‘persecute’ him, as racist,” the party said in a statement. …Willie Spies, legal spokesperson for civil rights initiative AfriForum, established by...
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