Free Windows "cleaning" utilities. Me thinks I might need one of these.

Most interesting points to me from this Biz Week article re. the credit crunch:

– Most if not all credit related problems trace back to mortgage ills. So much for last year's assurances that the mortgage meltdown could be quarantined from the rest of the economy.

– Exports and savings might be the salvation and the future of the US economy. If that's the case then we're in for a long, painful economic ride but one that will eventually make the country more secure.

– If the second point is true then we won't be returning to 'normal'. I'd say that's a good thing, right?

I absolutely love this description of "overly Flash-y" websites: "It seems almost without fail that they are either blowing my browser window up full size, asking me to read light grey 9px text, overflowing with obfuscatory flashterbation, teasing me with custom designed scrollbars that don’t behave as you’d expect, or asking me to evaluate their work based on postage stamp sized photographs." "Obfuscatory flashterbation" is my new favorite term.