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THE size of your pay packet may be important, but so is its purchasing power. Helpfully, a UBS report published this week offers a handy guide to how long it takes a worker on the average net wage to earn the price of a Big Mac in 73 cities. Fast-food junkies are best off in Chicago, Toronto and Tokyo, where it takes a mere 12 minutes at work to afford a Big Mac. By contrast, employees must toil for over two hours to earn enough for a burger fix in Mexico City, Jakarta and Nairobi.

From Economist.com

Priceless.

W00t.

Today marks the Windows 7 release party for a subset of IT professionals and geeks who have access to Microsoft Developers Network and Technet programs. The downloads went live about hour or so ago and initially started at a brisk 550KB/sec for me until eventually the word caught on around the world and the throughput dropped proportionally.  As you can see it has petered out at about 60KB/sec and should hopefully be done by time I get back in.