{"id":436,"date":"2009-06-26T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/06\/26\/dont-stop-till-you-get-enough-bandwidth\/"},"modified":"2009-06-26T22:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T22:41:00","slug":"dont-stop-till-you-get-enough-bandwidth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/06\/26\/dont-stop-till-you-get-enough-bandwidth\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t stop till you get enough (bandwidth)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/8120324.stm\">This<\/a> explains a lot!<\/p>\n<p>I had four applications going into the same competition yesterday, with a 4pm deadline. The funding agency&#8217;s website, and my internet access in general, slowed to a crawl and I barely got the last one submitted. I suspected that it might have had  something to do with Michael Jackson as this was a local competition without enough last-minute <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\">applicant activity<\/span> to crash the BBC and Nature Network! The global effects were probably amplified locally, as all our traffic routes through a portal on the main UBC campus and is known to bottleneck from time to time. No streaming video or radio for me at work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This explains a lot! I had four applications going into the same competition yesterday, with a 4pm deadline. The funding agency&#8217;s website, and my internet access in general, slowed to a crawl and I barely got the last one submitted. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/06\/26\/dont-stop-till-you-get-enough-bandwidth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,12,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grant-wrangling","category-music","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}