Archive for October, 2009

Homing Pigeons Faster than Broadband! (2009-10-7)

This is wonderful!  A company in South Africa is going to begin using homing pigeons to transfer data between its two offices, which are roughly 50 miles apart.  Currently they use broadband to transfer about 4GB of encrypted data between the facilities.  It takes about six hours to transfer the data.  Instead, they’ll put the [...]

Make huge $$ cleaning people’s teeth! (2009-10-5)

Every day I scan my spam quarantine to see if any legitimate mail got snagged in there.  Seldom do I find real mail, but I’m often amused at the subject lines on spam messages. The first message in the quarantine this morning gave me a giggle: Dental Assistant $50/hr min. salary “Hmm,” I thought to [...]