Happy New Year to the crnchd.

Let’s hope (and work hard to make sure) that 2009 is a prosperous one!

For me, skiing over the xmas break was fab, new year’s eve was a bit of an early night (?!) and I’ve been hard at work on a number of web projects, the first of which - www.runsaturday.com - is now live in a “public beta” state.

What does “public beta” mean? I think it’s what used to be version 1.0 - it’s just that software peeps are now being more honest about the state of their software - or maybe it’s just a wording that legitimises their dishonesty?

On the credit crunch itself… this article in the Times got my attention over New Year - it shows some interesting stats - including the £500,000,000,000 investment that we UK tax payers are making in the banks - while at the other end of the scale there’s currently just a 0.4 per cent drop in retail sales.

More soon - just wanted to pop in and say Happy New Year while I still could.