I glanced through Hoffy's magnum opus below, kinda interesting and I considered doing the same from the realist perspective. You know:

-bksie-: no mainframe problems reported in the mainframe newsgroup.

Just before it erupted with calls for help on testing, building LPARs, what the @#$@# is an IBM HYPER YR2000 PTF, HALP!!!!

JEMie: Banks Get it! All systems are perfect!

Then the Washington Post reported that the World Bank's internal payroll system was hopelessly snarled for months and the Wall Street Journal reported that Chase Manhattan's BondMaster system misplaced forty billion dollars, for about a year.

oh yes, and ... Hoffie: SAP is the answer, what's the question?

Turns out the question is, "How can companies like Hersheys, Whirlpool, Samsonite and others, have an IT system mess up product shipment, lose market share, problems that continue for months."

But, I figure, what the hey, times up, we all know it. It's gonna get very strange and if wishes were pollies, the emperor would have clothes, or something like that. Better to hit Sams Club for some nice canned artichoke hearts, some pickled pig's knuckles in jars, some jumbo pitted olives, that video tape of Baywatch... oops wrong shopping list.

I figure, it's past time to play "wack-a-pollie". It's time to fix as much code as possible, to build that second machine, get a nice industrial UPS and add a humongous battery to it. Order a couple more cases of paper for the Laserjet, tune up the systems so that they're ready to rumble.

It's time to crank code as if your life depended on it.

-- cory (kiyoinc@ibm.XOUT.net), November 29, 1999

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Cory:

I won't use this opportunity to pester you with "when's your next weather report coming out?" or other rude comments.

Actually, I've come to the point where I agree (it's come to THAT?) with most of the doomers. Paula Gordon is rightfully anxious about embeddeds, and verifiable facts still point to disruptions and disasters.

32 days now... I hope to be sooooo wrong on this.

don't ask me how I feel though.

-- (Kurt.Borzel@gems8.gov.bc.ca), November 29, 1999.

Apology time!!!!

deer mouse just set me straight. Thanks for the new report Cory!

-- (Kurt.Borzel@gems8.gov.bc.ca), November 29, 1999.

Take time outs to... breathe... cory!

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), November 29, 1999.

I glanced through Hoffy's magnum opus below, kinda interesting and I considered doing the same from the realist perspective.

Well, you could try, Cory.

'Course, judging from the above examples, fabricating or misstatements of positions just doesn't have the same, umm, effect as actual quotes.

But hey, it hasn't stopped you before.

-- Hoffmeister (hoff_meister@my-deja.com), November 29, 1999.

ERP Installations Derail -- Y2K Deadlines And Unexpected Costs Plague Several Recent Implementations"

-- lisa (lisa@work.now), November 29, 1999.

"It's time to crank code as if your life depended on it."

'tis what GOOD programmers have been doing for many years now, which is why so many Y2k projects are DONE. Of course this doesn't apply to those in the industry who obtained their job ethics from Homer "Where are the donuts?" Simpson.

-- Anita (notgiving@anymore.com), November 29, 1999.

lisa, thank you, darlin'.

You and Homer (Beanfag, not Simpson) provide better support for my arguments than anything I could come up with.

-- Hoffmeister (hoff_meister@my-deja.com), November 29, 1999.

Yet another successful doomer suck-up. Don't forget, Hoff, you're my creaux mignon dude.

-- lisa (lisa@work.now), November 29, 1999.

Hoffy, those weren't quotes, this is a clue: I glanced through Hoffy's magnum opus below, kinda interesting and I considered doing the same from the realist perspective. You know: The other clue is the lack of " marks.

I've noticed that the polly side is, well, self-righteous, pompous, and overly precise when it suits them. I'm not singling anyone in particular out, it's just a generalization. Most readers recognize informal, light-hearted writing when they see it.

-- cory (kiyoinc@ibm.XOUT.net), November 29, 1999.

you go,girl!

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), November 29, 1999.

Yeah, Cory, my bad.

Should know by now not to take anything you write seriously.

-- Hoffmeister (hoff_meister@my-deja.com), November 29, 1999.