Fear and uncertainty

Having just gotten back from a 60 mile trek down the Natchez Trace, I'm thankful to be inside a warm office as opposed to the very cool wind of south-central Tennessee.  That being said, things are not all rosy here either.  I had my first employee inquiry today on the stability of his job in light of the latest round of nebulous rumors.  Reading the techcrunch blog I see a number of large and small tech co's have been letting people go - most notably Yahoo.  Locally ACIPCO is laying off 50+ people, ACIPCO is a very paternal orgainzation that doesn't do this very often.  It'll be interesting to see if we are asked to make further cuts, given the slashes we have already made this year it would seem unlikely that development would be hit further - unless our business model is drastically changed.