We gotta go back to when the NBA was still the NBA. Way back when I had the pager with the two-way alert. I’m about to tell you the most Y2K story ever. I’m about to tell you how I almost died at Alonzo Mourning’s crib in the year 2000 on some dumb shit. Picture this....
In many respects, the outage was a real manifestation of fears that computing users had at the end of the last century with the Y2K bug. With Y2K, the fear was that a bug in software systems would trigger widespread technology failures. While the CrowdStrike failure was not Y2K, it was a...
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My mom, who was aware that Mike was trying to make this proposal happen, kept politely suggesting I go to the bathroom to freshen up, but I refused because I didn’t want to give up our amazing spot at the front! (Let this be a lesson to you, when your mom tells you to brush y...
However, the Arctic ice sheet is actually larger than it was in 2007 and as of last year global temperatures started to fall and it’s global cooling that is now starting to look like a threat. So is the world’s thermometer going up or down? As far as I’m concerned very few ...
hysteria can be used to help feed the hungry. “You should write in your column that people should stock up a two weeks supply of food and then if the Y2K global disaster doesn’t happen… people could give their canned goods and non-perishables that were stocked up to a soup kitchen....
He doesn't need to justify buying racquets to his wife. However, it is a different story for us 'rec' players. I wish I could get 24 frames each year, but I know that it ain't going to happen because we're not that good. Now the question going through my mind is ...
In order to develop test requirements you must know what the software is supposed to do. • People - testing projects, like all others, will not happen without people. Even in the most highly automated test environments, people are still paramount. We should also include leadership under ...
They are “too big to fail” and should be cut back by this logic. But doing so would cut off a major (the majority?) of mortgage finance. It would also get the government out of the business of tinkering with rates and downpayments. It doesn’t look like this is going to happen....
Last year it was global flu pandemics and before that (in no particular order) we had deep vein thrombosis (on long-haul flights), asteroids impacting the earth, Y2K, acid rain etc etc. One theory is that, historically speaking, apocalyptic thinking tends to occur during periods of rapid so...