Just how many simultaneous hits can a web server take? Well Northern Rock are certainly providing an interesting test as thousands and thousands of people attempt to get their money out from their online accounts.

I hope everyone has the right disaster recovery plans in place - like, er what happens when the global financial systems disintegrates? Where’s the back up, other than those who have their money in biscuits tins or under the mattress?

On the way to the train this morning passed a huge queue outside the local branch. You know, I’d never even noticed it before. Now its at the centre of probably the biggest financial crunch since 1929.

Suddenly the brave new world of ‘cyberspace’ and ’second life’ and ‘the digital economy’ is looking very vulnerable indeed.