Just a quick note to wish everyone the merriest of holidays and wishes for a wonderful New Year.

I, for one, will not regret wiping the dust of '08 from my heels to march into '09 bolstered with the belief that the economy will begin its turn-around.

I am grateful for this forum, where we can come together to share learnings! Wishing all of us a prosperous '09!!

KSB

Thank you Karen.

I wish you and all CSM members a very happy holiday season and successful New Year!

Ian Miller, Editor
CSM

Karen, I heard something interesting on the radio this morning, about how several types of services might disappear (or how they might disappear as free services).

Then I looked up what I think was the source of the conversation I heard on the radio:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/155988/gone_after_recession.html

If a number of these predictions do begin to materialize, I think people will figure out what to do next, what to bring to market next. We should all hang in there. Somewhere somebody is going to turn up in need of something, and we will go to market again if that is what we need to do.

Karen, I want to thank you for a year-plus of dedication to the topics here, and also thank you and Ian and his people at CSMgr for putting up with me and my prolific posts. And of course all my best to everybody celebrating Xmas and the New Year coming upon us whether we are prepared, or like it, or not.

Hello All,

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas! I'd like to wish everyone a great New Year ahead - may all your dreams and aspirations come true!

Johnny