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To: John Hunt who wrote (28344)	2/16/1999 7:42:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116955

Y2K spawns army of bugs << As just about anybody who ever tried to level a crooked 3-legged stool using a handsaw can tell the world, sometimes trying to fix a problem just makes it worse. You saw off the leg you think is too long and then it's too short. So you trim down the other two legs to match the first boo boo. Now you've got a stool that still wobbles but now it's too short as well as unstable. The parable of the milking stool and the handsaw gets cited frequently to describe the situation as computer experts realize that the very weapons they use to fight the Millennium Bug are, themselves, buggy. -- cont'd -- >> chicagotribune.com