{"id":2337,"date":"2004-04-23T01:41:08","date_gmt":"2004-04-23T05:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/04\/23\/southern-brain-trust\/"},"modified":"2004-04-23T01:41:08","modified_gmt":"2004-04-23T05:41:08","slug":"southern-brain-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/04\/23\/southern-brain-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Brain Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3268'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/methre.jpg\" width=\"311\" height=\"278\" align=\"left\">Alert<br \/>\n        readers and followers of the Berkman Blogging Clique may have noticed<br \/>\n        that currently both the Dowbrigade and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/philg\">MIT<br \/>\n        Uber-Blogger Philip Greenspun<\/a> are both in Ecuador, land of flowers<br \/>\n        and fun. Contrary to rumors flying around the Internet, we are not part<br \/>\n        of a popular plot to overthrow<br \/>\n        the inept government of Lucio Guiterrez.&nbsp; It is just a coincidence,<br \/>\n        and any speculation otherwise is just that.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, we are struggling to overcome a moribund bandwidth bottleneck.&nbsp; Our<br \/>\n        friendly Internet speedometer reports that our download rate is trucking<br \/>\n        along at a shocking 280 bits per second.&nbsp; You read that right &#8211;<br \/>\n        we are currently limited to less than ONE kps, although our ISP claims<br \/>\n        to be providing 33.6 kps! We are unable to view any media files at all,<br \/>\n        or download music, let alone video, or even meet up with the Dowbrigade<br \/>\n        Mom in her favorite online hangout, the Yahoo Bridge Emporium. We cannot<br \/>\n        upload any pictures larger than about 10k, as the Berkman server gets<br \/>\n        understandably disgusted at our snails pace and times out.<\/p>\n<p>So we hope our readership appreciates the heroic effort and limitless<br \/>\n        patience required to keep you all informed of the progress of the Great<br \/>\n        Experiment as we wrangle with the local phone company and attempt to<br \/>\n        get our line cleaned up. Stay tuned&#8230;..<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alert readers and followers of the Berkman Blogging Clique may have noticed that currently both the Dowbrigade and MIT Uber-Blogger Philip Greenspun are both in Ecuador, land of flowers and fun. Contrary to rumors flying around the Internet, we are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/04\/23\/southern-brain-trust\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}