Re: Racing

In article <77nahfF1ile0lU8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Huge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
says...
On 2009-05-22, Steve Terry <gFOURwwk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A few days a go on "This week" That plebe Diane Abbott whinged that
the Y2K threat was just another false alarm.
Fecking airhead of course has no understanding that billions were spent
and thousands of man-hours fixing miles of Unix / Cobol, etc, code
to stop computer controlled problems from happening.

I had this stored away.... (I *love* Ubuntu's "Tracker" tool)

The truly crazy headed for the hills with fortified bunkers and
ammunition. The more cautious bought water and tinned food.
Even the most optimistic drew some extra cash the week before.
Everyone speculated about the outcome.

But in the IT world, we worked.

[snip]

So, my fellow programmers, system administrators, database
administrators, operators, analysts and support staff -
congratulations on a job well done.

Ours may be the youngest profession on the planet, but this 21st
century belongs to us.

*applause*

The way I tend to put it is: if you take your child for a vaccination, and
the child doesn't get the disease against which they were vaccinated, do
you subsequently moan that the disease was all hype, and the vaccination a
pointless and expensive waste of time? Apparently not.

I was buying a house in 2000, and the Even More Expensive Boss of the Very
Expensive Lawyer I ended up using asked me once if I thought they still
needed to include the `Y2K clause' in business property purchase paperwork.
I asked him if it was OK for me to start a stopwatch. He laughed, and
changed the subject.
--
SAm.
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