It's 4 January 1999, the first business day of the year. Offices will be opening about four hours from now. Will we be hearing about one-year lookahead failures today and tomorrow?

Here's a search engine you can use to find recent news articles about computers, bugs, and glitches:

http://search.excite.com/search.gw?collection=timely&lk=excite&search=bug*+computer*+glitch*

This link can be bookmarked and later clicked on anytime you want to do a search on "bug", "computer" and "glitch". I didn't include "y2k" "millennium" or "year 2000" in the search, because some of the January 1999 failures may not be reported as Y2K-related.

-- Kevin (mixesmusic@worldnet.att.net), January 04, 1999

Answers

Thanks, Kevin!

-- Jack (jsprat@eld.net), January 04, 1999.

NAH----! All we are hearing about are the folks who forgot that water turns into a solid at 32 deg. F!!!! Unless you were in Chicago, this should have been a bump in the road. We got 3" of snow and 1/4" of ice but we can usually handle this stuff. Most of our schools are closed because of wind chill (-30 +/- F).

Coming to Cleveburgh from Potsdam, NY this is a nice walk in the park day.

Chuck, curling up in front of the Y2K compliant Kerosun.

-- Chuck, night driver (rienzoo@en.com), January 04, 1999.

Thank you Kevin!!!

Another interesting location to explore is CNN TV programming.

Search CNN transcripts by Day and by Category:

http://cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/

Search for more specific transcripts mentioning ... +Y2K, +transcript ...:

http:// search.cnn.com:8765/query.html?rq=0&col=cnni&qt=%2BY2K%2C+ %2Btranscript&qc=&qm=0&st=1&nh=10&lk=1&rf=1&go=go

Search, with Kevens strategy, for transcripts mentioning ... +bug, + computer, +glitch, +transcript ...:

http://search.cnn.com:8765/query.html?rq=0&col= cnni&qt=%2Bbug%2C+%2Bcomputer%2C+%2Bglitch%2C+%2Btranscript&qc=&qm=0& st=1&nh=10&lk=1&rf=1&go=go

Search for transcripts mentioning ... Y2K, Millennium, +transcript, Year 2000 ... (very broad search to see what kind of hits youre getting:

http://search.cnn.com:8765/query.html?rq=0&col= cnni&qt=Y2K%2C+Millennium%2C+%2Btranscript%2C+%93Year+2000%94&qc=&qm= 0&st=1&nh=10&lk=1&rf=1&go=go

Search anything on CNN mentioning ... +Y2K...:

http:// search.cnn.com:8765/query.html?rq=0&col=cnni&qt=%2BY2K&qc=&qm=0&st=1& nh=10&lk=1&rf=1&go=go

General CNN web-site searching for other articles, (references search tips):

http://cnn.com/SEARCH/ #searchtips

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), January 04, 1999.

My favorite time-saving news clipping source (updated at least daily) is

http://www.year2000.com/articles/NFarticles.html

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.com), January 04, 1999.

Whoops! My bad. Let's try that again...

Y2K Press Clippings

So much for my credibility as a computer-kinda-guy...

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.com), January 04, 1999.

Turns off link switch, slinks off into the night...

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.com), January 04, 1999.