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I’m a bit concerned that it might…

1. Food and fuel prices are sky high and there are no signs they will return to the levels of just 1 year ago.

2. Most of the UK’s economic growth in the past decade has been fuelled by easy borrowing on the never-never - and that bubble has pretty fundamentally burst. Unaffordable housing is only part of the debt disaster.

3. The UK does not make anything anymore - all we do is “add value” through services - but when nobody can afford the services any more how do we generate any money in the country? We can’t.

I am naturally a cynic but I do worry that this recession is going to hit us on a far more fundamental level than anyone had imagined possible. Will it be the trigger for the re-emergence of China as the worlds most important economy? Have we given them the key to economic success through our desperation to outsource all the dirty work? I think that maybe we have.

Knew it would happen sooner or later. Can’t beat Microsoft when it comes to supplying overcomplicated and ultimately unreliable operating systems.

This one I think was caused by that pesky Adobe Reader that likes to wait in the background all the time after you have first used it, and then needs your permission to close it down. If you don’t give that permission it seems capable of hanging the whole system up - I was left with a black screen with nothing but a mouse pointer.

A swift removal of the battery and we were back to where we should be - however from using Windows in the past it has never seemed to respond well to repeated hard restarts. Lets hope this is not the beginning of the end…

Unfortunately I can’t see an easy way of making Adobe Reader close whenever you close the web browser it was embedded in - anyone else know how?