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Dateline: 6 January 2000 All Day Edition Read The Previous Edition
Editorial
Thank goodness we can finally watch TV, read the newspaper and listen
to the radio without a relentless barrage of Y2K warnings -- and at last
programmers can get back to using two digits for the year again because,
after all, none of us will be around in 2100 when such a shortcut could
again cause a problem ;-)
Fortunately, apart from a few small and isolated snafus, the Y2K problem
was largely a non-event -- as most "informed" people figured it would be.
As I write today's column I'm still busy counting votes in the Aardvark
Awards and I'm pleased to say that there was a huge response. Perhaps
it's just that Aardvark has more readers than it did last year or maybe
it's the prospect of winning a Microsoft eunuch-Mouse that has spurred
you all to cast your vote -- either way it doesn't matter but it does
mean a lot more work for me.
Net-related news is still a bit thin on the ground at present -- it looks
almost as if the whole industry, world-wide, is engaging in one of those
Kiwi Christmases that last until the end of January. So, when there's not
enough stuff that's directly Net related to fill the daily headlines,
I'll be supplementing it with other interesting tech-related items.
Coming up over the next week or so I'll be announcing the results of
the awards vote and I'll also be reviewing my predictions for 1999 and
making some bold new ones for 2000.
Stay Tuned...
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