Judging by the volume of traffic onto TB2000 over the last few days, and by the looks of some of the e-mail I get, there are plenty of new lurkers out there who --like me -- have no idea how to search the earlier threads and could make use of a hotlinked page like the one that appeared 2-3 weeks ago, with links to the Senate 100 day report, Paula Gordon's papers, Jim Lord's site, Gary North's site, the IEE and IEEE reports, Navy MUL's etc., as well as newer stuff like the preparedness checklist that the Governor of California published, etc.

New posts come so fast and frequently now that highly useful threads get buried in an oblivion of regulars' ruminations and troll-turds.

OH! and a personal question: whatheheck does LOL mean? I figure it's Lots of Luck, but it never fits the context.

-- Roch Steinbach (rochsteinbach@excite.com), November 03, 1999

Answers

I think LOL means Laughing out loud.

-- Marsha (MSykes@court.co.macon.il.us), November 03, 1999.

LOL=Laughing out Loud ROFLOL=Rolling on Floor, Laughing out Loud LMAO= Laughing my Ass Off.

-- Greg (skipy@erols.com), November 03, 1999.

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-- Helpful (dis-spell@the.meme), November 03, 1999.

Roch

I gave up on saving forum links. But here are a few of my efforts

 Prep Forum and Classic Prep Archive, All in one Y2K information stockpile * BG*

 Good Research Links for your Y2K investigations

And some of the more important recent links

 Most Small Chemical Plants Surveyed Not Y2K-Ready; Temporary Shutdown Urged to Minimize Chemical Accident Risks

 *****Senate 100 Day Report in HTML*****

 IEEE Y2K Chairman's Personal, Pessimistic Take on Y2K and Yourdon's End Game Paper

 Oil Chat

 Clarification on Embedded Systems (VERY long)

-- Brian (imager@home.com), November 03, 1999.

Roch,

I don't have time to put together a comprehensive list of links this afternoon, but here are a few that could be helpful to newcomers...

The Senate 100 Day Report:

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001SFC

http://www.senate.gov/~y2k/documents/100dayrpt/

Senate Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem:

http://www.senate.gov/~y2k/

House Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology:

http://www.house.gov/reform/gmit/y2k/index.htm

Brian's Y2K research links:

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001A3x

Ed Yourdon's Y2K links and resources:

http://www.yourdon.com/y2kresources.html

Sanger & Shannon's Review of Y2K News Reports:

http://sangersreview.com/

Y2K news articles, updated daily (from WorldNetDaily):

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/y2k_index.shtml

Emergency Food and Water Supplies (FEMA):

http://www.fema.gov/library/emfdwtr.htm

Family Disaster Supplies Kit (FEMA):

http://www.fema.gov/library/diskit.htm

Individual Preparation for Y2K (The Cassandra Project):

http://cassandraproject.org/indprep.html

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), November 03, 1999.

Nicely done. There's some jewels in there I myself hadn't found yet. Plus the Gary North IABFI site -- trollwork, maybe but nto without its value. On behalf of the newbies, thanks.

-- Roch Steinbach (rochsteinbach@excite.com), November 03, 1999.