Ed Yourdon's Web Site link
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This site was last updated on January 10, 2000

I've corrected a number of minor errors and broken links throughout the site. I've also moved my most recent (and probably final) Y2K essay, "Move Over, Rodney Dangerfield -- You've Got Company", into the articles and essays section of the site.
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-- (privacy@please.now), January 11, 2000

Answers

Ed Yourdon:

I for one would be most interested in reading any postmortem analysis you may wish to offer.

BTW, once told a programmer friend (who based much of his work on your techniques) that I considered you a very decent man and someone I'd like to know personally. Nothing has changed that assessment.

-- Yan (jfrewb@aol.com), January 11, 2000.

"Move Over, Rodney Dangerfield -- You've Got Company"

http://www.yourdon.com/articles/y2krodney.html

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), January 11, 2000.

UN-likely. Spooky prediction (2nd of the day): Ed will continue to write excellent essays about Y2K, he'll just present them as "Non-" or "Post-" Y2K.

-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), January 11, 2000.

Mr Y consults and writes for a living. This is not his last anything.

The likeliest scenario is that he will lie low until the public has forgotten the gist of his last Y2K synopsis ("I know what I know") and then rise again with his approach to the the "disruptions" scenario, implying that:

1. These minor disruptions fulfill his main predictions.

2. They are not worse due in part to his prior warnings precipitating remediation (ignoring, of course, that one of his warnings was the inevitable FAILURE of remediation)

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

-- I'mSo (happy@prepped.com), January 11, 2000.

Good essay, Ed. I agree that the scary information was out there-- mostly from our government, if anyone took the trouble to read. You also prove that dealing with the public is dangerous. They are nuts.

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), January 11, 2000.