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To counter all the hype and stuff in the news, I've added this page on the Y2K problem. It was pretty much unknown outside of some computer circles until this year, when the media started blitzing everyone with
Y2K stories. Suddenly, Y2K is big news! Of course, it's far too late to do much about it, considering that, according to Yourdon and others, the project on-time, on-budget completion rate in the US is
less than 20%, but that doesn't stop the media from trumpeting it as a big event!
Anyway, if you haven't started on your personal Y2K plans, today is almost too late. To the folks who say that Y2K will just be a minor bump in the road, I would say "but what if you're wrong?" Common
sense, as well as good risk management practice says to hope for the best but prepare for the worst. If all that freeze-dried food, water, etc. you've stored sits in their cases during all of 2000, you've got
backpacking/camping food, don't you? At least you're a lot better prepared for the next time the power goes off, or the weather's so bad out that you can't leave your house, aren't you? It's not money
down the drain, that's for sure.
If you are a business, have you thought about making sure all your systems are Y2K-compliant? How about your vendors? Thought about the folks that deliver the toilet paper to your rest rooms, the copy
paper for your printers and copiers? How about the electric power grid, or your city's infrastructure services? How about *your* infrastructure - the lights, the phones, that shiny new desktop or laptop
computer sitting on your desk? Sit down and think of *everything* - and then think twice more. What would happen if even one of your company's infrastructure systems went down - would you still be able
to continue in business? Any one of these services failing could seriously hamper your ability to continue to do business. Think about it.
Here's my section of links:
Cory Hamasaki's DC Y2K Weather Reports
My mirror of Cory Hamasaki's DC Y2K Weather Reports (more reports than Cory's site)
Latest Y2K stories from around the world
Gary North's Y2K Links and Forums
Y2K News Magazine
CNN - Y2K planners troubleshoot the civic safety net - January 15, 1999
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