Malcolm, if you actually get time to see this, here's best of wishes to you as most of the rest of us watch NZ come up (almost) first to bat.

Thanks for all your posts about your problems and victories.

-- Anonymous, December 30, 1999

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malcolm,

thanks for your insight on this forum, good luck in the next few days.

alex cocco md

-- Anonymous, December 30, 1999

Thanks to everybody fon this forum or contributing to my education on electric power plants and the fine discussions, including you FactFinder - who I hope is right. Good luck to you particularly Malcom, as it appears you are going to be first up to bat, and many of us will be watching to see how youall do.

-- Anonymous, December 30, 1999

Good luck indeed Malcom! And I read today that NZ was going to be careful how it put out information to avoid unecessary panic. And then found information concerning lost communications, New Year riots that tore down a tower, all on the NZ government site at: http://www.y2k.govt.nz/home/Navigationpage.htm Under the communications link at the left. Tonight, I went back and it was all gone. Of course I figured they were just doing a tests, but no where on the site was this stated, talk about the potential to cause a panic had it been left up for tommorrow!

In any case, let us know how it goes if you can, Malcom.

Regards,

-- Anonymous, December 30, 1999

Thank you All for the kind words. Its been a fairly busy day in the control room so far today, but hopefully its all in preparation for a quiet roll over. We have had one confirmed Y2K failure (in a business system not related to generation) but I'll post more on this later when I get more time.

-- Anonymous, December 30, 1999

With 7 hours to go to the roll over there have been no public reports of any Y2K issues.

We have experienced a minor failure in a business system that collates anticipated data on the following days generation. It allows all forms to be filled in with a year 2000 date, but will not collate them into a single report. It was able to be done manually (2 hours instead of 10 minutes) and it looks like it will be OK once the rollover is completed.

All other systems are behaving normally.

Malcolm

-- Anonymous, December 30, 1999