Re: Y2K: How did you prepare?

drizzellla · ‎03-14-2010

Our computer program changed at work, we went from the year being 2 digits to 4 digits. So we manually had to go through thousands of projects and files and change the number of digits.

We must have done a good job. I do not remember any problems.

jeanlake · ‎03-10-2010

Thought about this the other day as I looked at the farmhouse across from the new, mega gas station. Owners painted "Y2K - Ready?" in white paint on their roof. I have no idea what their point was. For years, until the paint totally went away, there was a shadow of the words on their roof. Didn't prepare. Unplugged technology, as advised, and employers took care of technology business on their end. I think it must have been a slow news year in 1999 so the Y2K business was at the forefront.

A couple we know went nuts in 1988, thinking the apocolypse was going to happen. Gave all their friends a book about it. I just had a baby and wasn't in the mood to hear it. They're now attending a radical church and we run into them at the grocery store now and again.

"I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees." Henry David Thoreau