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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bearcub who wrote (5921)	6/7/1999 12:46:00 PM
From: William Peavey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

bearcub, You sure poured your heart into that one! Re: the wall. Last fall my wife and I bought a small house on 1+ acre of land in a lovely town of 1670+/- population. Planting a vegetable garden this spring forced me to extract many rocks from the soil on my hillside, and wouldn't you know it, I have erected a stone wall around my garden. Unfortunately, I have just completed encircling the circumference, a semicircle about 75 feet in diameter, and have only achieved an average height of about 18", so short of electrifying it in some way, it is more aesthetic than defensive. When I was about half way through this enterprise, I realized that its real purpose was procrastination. Tilling the previously unworked, cold, wet soil was boring, and my Y2K-to-do list was really daunting. We would all like this threat to go away, so we can revert to more conventional sources of entertainment. But until we finally witness the results of the one true Y2K test itself, in January next, I do not believe that backsliding on this issue is prudent. My first crop, cucumbers, are starting to mature, so we are going to learn "pickling." Whether our extensive preparation efforts will actually deliver us from this perceived pickle. . . as so many on these SI threads insist on repeating, ad nauseam, "only time will tell." Bill Peavey

To: bearcub who wrote (5921)	6/8/1999 10:45:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

GAO wants USDA to finish Y2K contingency plans sooner The General Accounting Office has pushed the Agriculture Department to cut its deadline for completing and testing its Year 2000 business continuity and contingency plans BY THREE MONTHS. In a recently released report, the GAO said Agriculture's December deadline to finish testing "leaves no room for delays or sufficient time for correcting, revising and retesting plans if necessary." December also falls after the beginning of the government's fiscal Year 2000, "when potential failures could have already occurred." As a result, the GAO recommended that the deadline to complete and test the plans should be Sept. 30. fcw.com What idiots!!! Why didn't someone think of this before? Even September 30 is stupid. Govt fiscal year begins next day. Go buy more food. Cheryl