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With the tubes running at less than dialup speeds lately, here in Qatar, I decided to do some purely academic bittorrent download benchmarking. Here are torrents for three CD size images:
Yes - it does read "20 days", "90 days" and "95 days" - slight down on the maximum of 145 days earlier today.
This is due to some fairly impressive failures of submarine cables in the last week. It would be fair to ask why I am clogging up the pipes trying to download torrents when things as basic as porn web sites are downloading very slowly (I'm told). Something to do with net neutrality I guess...
This is naught, nonetheless, when compared with the catastrophe of me running out of Vegemite today, and, the yeast-extract equivalent of the Nectar-Of-The-Gods not being available anywhere - I repeat - anywhere in Qatar.
The last bottle I purchased here, several months ago, was actually the last bottle that I have seen on the shelves here in Qatar. It cost me QAR 30 (US $ 8.25) for 175 grams. If we presume the net weight of Vegemite is 150 grams, the that works out at about 5.5 cents per gram - but every glorious gram worth it.
Like some junkie facing imminent withdrawal, I have been cotton-shooting every last scraping of Vegemite, eking it out of the jar for my morning toast; I have hunted all known supermarkets for the goods; pleaded with friends to have some of their stuff; and tried to be satisfied with the methodone of condiments, Marmite, but there is no substitute.
This is a disaster.
<sniff>
- Posted by Campbell M on February 8, 2008
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