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

To: Investor-ex! who wrote (1851)	5/17/1998 12:14:00 AM
From: jwk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

One of the main underlying themes in looking at y2k issues is the potential for cascading problems caused by the interconnectedness of IT systems. Just thought I'd toss out this old story - supposed to be true - to illustrate just how fast things can go wrong once a problem event is set in motion. This information reportedly came from the insurance claim of an English laborer who had been given the job of removing an old brick chimmney from a house. In his description of what happened, he wrote: "I'd loaded the brick into a barrel which I had raised by means of a pulley. I climbed down off the roof and wrapped the loose end of the rope around my hands to get a good grip and pulled the cinch knot loose from the tree to which I had tied it to secure the barrel while I loaded it. Just as the knot came free I realized that the barrel of bricks outweighed me by a good bit, and before I could do a thing, I found myself being yanked-up off the ground. The barrel struck me pretty solid on my head as I went past it and that's how I came to have my first head wound. An instant later I felt an incredible pain as my fingers and hands were jammed into the pulley. That's how I got my broken fingers and smashed hands. Just about at that time the barrel hit the ground and smashed to pieces spilling the bricks. I outweighed it since the bricks had spilled and I started to fall. The broken barrel took a pretty good whack at me as I passed it on my way down. That's how I came to have a buch of these other cuts and bruises. A moment after the barrel hit me, I hit the ground and broke both my legs which kept me from getting out of the way when the barrel came back down and hit me for the third time which is when I think I got my concussion. After that I don't remember much else."