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Hi folks, Happy New Millennium!

Well, so far things are looking good. I have to admit I enjoyed being able to take a warm shower this morning. It is starting to look like all the money and effort spent on fixing the y2k bug has been successful. I always have said I would rather prepare and be wrong than not prepare and be wrong. I pray that I was wrong, and I am glad I prepared.

However, keep in mind that many if not most of the world's computers were turned off last night. Monday morning (Sunday in some cases in the Middle East) the computers, ports, pipelines, oil refineries, business networks and mainframes will be turned back on. There will be some glitches and failures, hopefully minor and not life threatening. Some believe that the worst problems will be computers that come back on and appear to function well, but silently process bad data. The bad data can cause even greater problems in the long run.

The Gartner group has said all along that only 10% of the y2k problems will happen around the rollover. There will be glitches and failures for months to come as there have been in the months leading up to this. Most companies who experience a failure at midnight last night or on Monday will not immediately call the news media to report it -- that would harm their stock position. They will instead try to fix it or work around it. We will not learn of it until there is a disruption in their production or they go bankrupt. So... in this case, no news is not necessarily good news.

It appears that there have been no high-profile disasters and no one has lost their life to y2k. However, stay vigilant, prepared and in prayer for several weeks (or more).

Have a blessed and prosperous New Year!

JoseMiami

1TH 5:6 so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober.

1PE 1:13 Therefore, gird your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

-- JoseMiami (caris@prodigy.net), January 01, 2000

Answers

If the problems in Pakistan are any indication, watch out for Monday. Pakistan, following Muslim tradition, has its Day of Rest on Friday. January 1, 1900 wiped the Stock Exchange.



-- K. Stevens (kstevens@ It ALL went away 19 hours ago.com), January 01, 2000.


Hi K. Do you have a link? I would like to read about that.

-- joseMiami (caris@prodigy.net), January 01, 2000.

Very true, Jose.

-- Mr. Pinochle (pinochle@aol.com), January 02, 2000.

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