Happy Humbug

All this brouhaha over "millenium" is futile. "Millenium" is nothing more than a completely arbitrary point in a completely arbitrary calendar. Calling each other "arses" and "idiots" may be true, but why bother? So, Happy New Year to all of the arses and idiots! We had a big celebration over "odometer rollover" and an object lesson, particularly for COBOL programmers and bureaurats, about the flaws in using 2 decimal digits for year. Aside from the unnoticed total collapse of civilization, the planes did not fall from the sky, and my uncle's hearing aids didn't spontaneously combust. I'm still using a checkbook and lots of forms at work that have 19_ preprinted in the year line. We had another celebration a year later. I slept through both of them. For REAL events to monitor, consider the winter solstice in 2012 the Unix epoch (for those still alive almost 30 years from now) -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com