Ok let's try this link:

http://www.usia.gov/cgi-bin/washfile/display.pl?p=/products/washfile/topic/global&f=99082406.wgi&t=/products/washfile/newsitem.shtml

Hopefully it will work this time, as I'm sick of typing it out. The best part of this article is the interview, as the first part doesn't sound like anything new to any of the faithful.

-- Anonymous, August 26, 1999

Answers

The link is fine, thanks for posting it Sean.

Regards,

-- Anonymous, August 26, 1999

Thanks Sean,

Got it. It works. However, for your sanity, might I recommend, that you place your cursor in the "Address" section of your browser, when you are on an interesting site, and copy the address, then paste it into your new document. This will save you from early baldness.

xBob

-- Anonymous, August 27, 1999

Transcript: Worldnet with Energy Official on Y2K and the Energy Sector [this interview took place Aug. 17th]

snippet:

Caverly is deputy director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, as well as deputy director for international energy and Y2K planning and preparedness at the Department of Energy (DOE). From Worldnet's studio in Washington, he answered questions posed by journalists in St. Petersburg and Moscow August 17.

The biggest problems that could result on January 1, 2000 and beyond, according to Caverly, are related to "interdependencies" -- in other words, "the systems that depend upon other systems to function. Electricity systems can't function without telecommunications; telecommunications can't function without electricity."

Caverly pointed out that because the American system "is so reliable and so efficient, small Y2K interruptions will probably have a far greater impact than in systems that are not as reliable, that are used to routinely having interruptions in their service -- electricity and natural gas. So there is a risk that a small problem in the United States could be a much bigger problem for the U.S. than a large problem in some other country."

It seems there is a lot of feel-good assumptions in this article that addressing a problem = solving the problem. And the bigger the company, the more successful they have been at solving the Y2K probem.

We shall soon see.

-- Anonymous, August 27, 1999