It's hard to believe that, ten years ago, we were making preparations for the Y2K cut-over. As an IT professional, this was something we had to plan for, prepare for, and test.
We spent lots of money on remediation. I know that more than a few companies chose to replace the systems outright. At the time, my office specialized in implementing such systems. After Y2K, everyone had a shiny new system--it took a while before things picked up again.
As this article notes, the use of off-shore people started with Y2K. Once companies realized the benefit, they realized they could continue to send work overseas.
At the end of the day, was disaster averted, or was it a waste? Overall, I think that the remediation effort served its key aim of preventing lots of annoying little problems from causing not a global collapse, but months and years of lost productivity after the fact, sorting it out piecemeal.
Y2K came at an odd time in the world of computing. It was at the heels of the first internet wave, when such technology became a key part of day-to-day life. Over the course of the nineties, what was something that tended to be part of big business was being pushed to smaller and smaller organizations. Y2K, I think, was the capstone event for this shift, leading to a few years until the next phase.
What's the longest you've ever waited in line?
Last year, I stood in line to get my daughter into a school. That was about six hours, and it was in the thirties. While I was able to submit the paperwork, she missed a different cut-off.
Next week, they are doing the same thing, and I'll be there (this time, in the middle of the night). My daughter has cleared all the cut-offs, so, so long as I make it in time, she should get in.
For my daughter's fifth birthday (today), I made cupcakes. These are very much from scratch--as my mixer is currently down, I stirred/mixed everything by hand. I have mad baking skillz.
The appliances in my house were all installed about fourteen years before we moved in. Counting our eleven years here, they would be twenty-five years old. However, one by one, we've replaced them.
Eddy felt I had to do something first.
People wonder why, by mid-December, I have no Christmas spirit. It’s ’cause the season is too long and too invasive.
This is becoming an annual post for me....
For the record, I have not given up on Vox. I have too many friends here, and a great community. I value that.
Brown Amazon's post on Pallas Cats reminded me of a single Pallas Cat kitten who was born to the Cincinnati Zoo last summer. To keep him company, they paired him with a domestic kitten. I put up a picture, and thought I'd share. It was fun to watch them play together.
Waving in the general direction of home.
