Jump to content
Jambands.ca

timouse

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    3,762

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by timouse

  1. an evening of Celtic music in Eden Mills

    in Soundboard

    Posted

    Friday December 4th at the Eden Mills community hall, come see almost famous Celtic band Rant Maggie Rant.

    They are a Celtic Group from the Stratford area and were incredible last year! They will sing Christmas songs, traditional Celtic songs, and their own creative ‘Celtic Music with an Edge’ compositions. The second set will be lively, good dancing or listening to, Celtic music.

    Eden Mills Community Hall, 108 York St., Eden Mills ON N0B 1P0

    Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Concert starts at 8:00 p.m. Information and tickets please contact Kit at 856-1188 or emmpca@sentex.net

    Tickets are also available at the Wild Rose Consignment Store in Guelph, 23A Macdonell Street, Guelph

    Tickets are $20 (Students $10)

    myspace page

    directions from kitchener.

  18. Tragically Hip ticket auction in support of Everdale Farm

    in Soundboard

    Posted

    th_620x80rev.jpg

    Everdale Presents: A VIP Evening with The Tragically Hip

    * 100% of the auction proceeds go directly to Everdale Farm and Environmental Learning Centre

    * 2 amazing seats (VIP band reserve seats) for their Hamilton Place show on October 3rd.

    * After party pass, giving you access to the backstage lounge.

    Everdale Farm has two pairs of VIP tickets for the show which include after show party passes.The auction will be taking place on the Toronto Star auction site from September 17-24.

    Click here to go to the auction site.

    more about Everdale.

  22. carrier pigeon beats South African internet

    in Soundboard

    Posted

    BBC story here.

    SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'

    Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery - but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon.

    A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm, Telkom.

    Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data.

    Telkom said it was not responsible for the firm's slow internet speeds.

    The idea for the race came when a member of staff at Unlimited IT complained about the speed of data transmission on ADSL.

    He said it would be faster by carrier pigeon.

    "We renown ourselves on being innovative, so we decided to test that statement," Unlimited's Kevin Rolfe told the Beeld newspaper.

    'No cats allowed'

    Winston took off from Unlimited IT's call centre in the town of Howick to deliver the memory stick to the firm's office in Durban.

    According to Winston's website there were strict rules in place to ensure he had no unfair advantage.

    “ Winston is over the moon â€

    Kevin Rolfe

    They included "no cats allowed" and "birdseed must not have any performance-enhancing seeds within".

    The firm said Winston took one hour and eight minutes to fly between the offices, and the data took another hour to upload on to their system.

    Mr Rolfe said the ADSL transmission of the same data size was about 4% complete in the same time.

    Hundreds of South Africans followed the race on social networking sites Facebook and Twitter.

    "Winston is over the moon," Mr Rolfe said.

    "He is happy to be back at the office and is now just chilling with his friends."

    Meanwhile Telkom said it could not be blamed for slow broadband services at the Durban-based company.

    "Several recommendations have, in the past, been made to the customer but none of these have, to date, been accepted," Telkom's Troy Hector told South Africa's Sapa news agency in an e-mail.

    South Africa is one of the countries hoping to benefit from three new fibre optic cables being laid around the African continent to improve internet connections.

    Story from BBC NEWS

×
×
  • Create New...