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Re: UK GMT roll over

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wayne Bouchard)
Sat Jan 1 02:20:24 2000

From: Wayne Bouchard <web@typo.org>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.991231224916.27622G-100000@crispy.iconn.net> from Bill Becker at "Dec 31, 1999 11:06:42 pm"
To: bbecker@iconn.net (Bill Becker)
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 00:05:22 -0700 (MST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Isn't it interesting to note that there have been no significant y2k
problems but there have been significant service disruptions as a
result of paranoia and general cynisism? 

Can we shoot the press now?

> There are also unamusing things like for example the local coffee/doughnut 
> shop being closed tonight when it is supposed to be open 24/7.  I 
> consider this to be a serious denial of  service by the miscreant who 
> operates the shop.  Man does not live by nicotine alone.
> 
> Meanwhile i sit here like a moron waiting an hour for a non-event to 
> happen.  My sole purpose for being here is so that the 'suits' who are 
> out whooping it up, can experience anxiety-free whooping.
> 
> After midnight i get to dodge drunken revelers on my 33 mile trip home, 
> and tomorrow morning i'll get salt in the wounds when Randy unloads on me 
> for copying this to nanog.
> 
> I just hope i'm dead when 2038 rolls around.  Or is it 2238?  I can't 
> remember.  Oh well.
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Alex Pilosov wrote:
> 
> > This is mildly amusing. Looking at headers:
> > 
> > On Sat, 1 Jan 100, Neil J. McRae wrote:
> 
> 
> 


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Wayne Bouchard                                    [Immagine Your    ]
web@typo.org                                      [Company Name Here]
Network Engineer

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