http://www2.vnu.co.uk/v5_static/v5_columns/mole/v5_col_mole_23.htm

Finally, the award for biggest YK2 humbug goes to the Sri Lankan government, which won the December election on a promise of increased pensions, only to claim in January that the cost of warding off the ineffectual millennium bug meant it could no longer meet its election commitments. Downing Street take note.

-- Jim McAteer (jim_mcateer@hotmail.com), February 10, 2000