In spite of my request in this magazine, nobody has contacted me about suitable meeting dates. From this I deduce that either no one actually bothers to read the magazine or no one likes meetings!
The plans so far are as follows;-
There were several other popular ideas that emerged from the village survey but no organisation has taken them up so far. If you do intend to do anything, please let me know so that we can get an accurate picture of how we as a community will mark the occasion.
The year 2000 problem is also referred to as Y2K (Y=year, 2k = 2000, get it?).
A junior manager recently carried out his computer manager's directive to sort out the Y2K problem.
"I hope I haven’t misunderstood your instructions" he wrote in a memo, "because to be honest none of this y to k problem makes much sense to me. At any rate, I have finished converting all the y’s to k’s for all the months stored on our computer. So, now we’re ready for the new millennium with the new months Januark, Februark, Mak and Julk. I am sure that you will be pleased the project has been completed well ahead of the deadline".
I'm sure you're all worried about computers and things going crash at the turn of the millennium. Well, on Sanyo's web-site you can discover that their 'Bread Plus' breadboard, capable of thick and thin slicing, and made of ABS plastic with high-density polyethylene, is not only dishwasher safe but also year 2000 compliant.