However did we miss this news back in late April?

CSC's Milt Cooper, Y2K Chair John Koskinen Honored As Private Sector, Public Sector Executives of the Year

This is a CSC press release, so it's mostly about Mr. Cooper. Here's the description of the award itself:

Azimuth Awards are presented annually by the CIO Council in conjunction with FOSE, an annual technology trade event presented each year by Post Newsweek Business Information, Inc. Two executives, including one each from the public and private sectors, are publicly honored along with individuals who have contributed to the Council's accomplishments during the preceding year...

"We specifically named our awards the Azimuth, which is a navigational or astronomical measure of the arch of the horizon," explained Howell. "As such, we view our award winners as setting the standard with their far-reaching vision and overall technology leadership qualities."

*sigh*

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.hid), May 26, 1999

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*Another Sigh*

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), May 26, 1999.

Didn't Time name Saddam Hussein their "Man of the Year" a few years back?

"[W]e view our award winners as setting the standard with their far-reaching vision and overall technology leadership qualities".

What "technology leadership qualities" does the K-man possess, exactly? Does spinning the media count?

-- regular (zzz@z.z), May 26, 1999.

AAAAACCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKK !!!!!
An award ?!?
Official seal of sanctimonious approval ... aacckkkkk.
With that kind of positive cultural reinforcement, ain't nuttin gonna change.
oh my oh my oh my oh my oh my oh my oh my oh my oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

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-- Leska (allaha@earthlink.net), May 26, 1999.

Doesn't matter. Come March next year, the scarlett P (for pollyanna) he'll be wearing (courteously knitted by wives of the Senate Y2K Committee) will render him unable to get a table at the Salvation Army.

-- Lisa (lisa@work.now), May 26, 1999.

John Koskinen has singlehandedly ensured that most citizens of the United States will not be prepared for Y2K. *That* deserves a commendation?

-- sally strackbein (sally@y2kkitchen.com), May 26, 1999.

They can't be serious!!!

BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...!

Stop it! Stop it! My sides are splitting!

Next thing ya know Clintler will get the Nobel Peace Prize!

-- Jeremiah Jetson (laterthan@uthink.y2k), May 26, 1999.

And, post it here...

From Douglass Carmichaels latest Y2KWEEKX
Week 32 issue 36 May 26, 1999

http://tmn.com/y2k

[BTW, lots of good stuff, todays e-issue should be posted soon].

[snip]

Monday's big news was the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion official press conference announcement of the "Community Conversations" campaign. The only media coverage I know of was CSPAN outside the web based news.

I attended this event and although I applaud the effort I am unimpressed. Council Chair John Koskinen invited representatives from the American Bankers Association, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the North American Electric Reliability Council, the American Hospital Association, the Clearwater, Florida based Citizens for a Stable Community and Frost Bank in San Antonio, Texas to endorse this endeavor. The strongest message was: "We need to build confidence in the infrastructure"

My questions is: how does confidence lead to preparedness? I think it encourages us to not prepare. If there is no problem, why worry? John Koskinen and Judith (Joose) Hadley from Citizens for a Stable Community were the only voices calling for preparedness. But they didn't do it strongly or with enough sense of urgency. In fact I thought it was interesting that the Council chose Joose as the only community organizer on the panel. Although she is clearly well connected in her local community and doing great efforts to raise awareness and work with the local infrastructure, JK had never met her and she has had little contact with the rest of the Y2k community network. Why would he not want one of the well networked vocal community awareness spokespeople up on the podium? Why pull a stranger from a bubble? What was he afraid of? Would one of us have said the wrong thing? I think so.

All of the statements were prepared in advance btw. Were they approved ahead of time? They were certainly seen ahead of time. I learned yesterday that the Council has hired a number of hot shot PR consultants to run the media campaign around the conversations. A team of them flew to Hartford, CT where the first official "Conversion" will take place on June 7th. What are they being told to say, what will they be doing to make sure these events get strong participation, will they work with us? I intend to find out and let you know.

[snip--to end]

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), May 26, 1999.

Is this a joke? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Planned parenthood today announced that Adolph Hitler will posthumousley recieve the outstanding achievement award in population control. Board members cited his dedication, innovation, and tenacity in the face of worldwide opposition as the critical factors in reaching this decision.

-- Nikoli Krushev (doomsday@y2000.com), May 26, 1999.

Nik, heeheeeheeeheee, our Saturday Night Dead Outrage comedian ;~]

-- Ashton & Leska in hot Cascadia (summer's here!) (allaha@earthlink.net), May 26, 1999.

I understand that BJ Klinton once won the Governor of the Year award at a National Governors Conference. They probably are recycling his plaque for Ko-skin-en. Ko-skin-en should be receiving the Joseph Goebbels Big Lie award.

-- Mr. Adequate (mr@adequate.com), May 27, 1999.