Y2K Information


BOOKS: Out Of Print Books

http://www.abebooks.com


CHRISTIAN WOMEN'S COMMENTS

Sarah's Daughters: A Wife's Response to Y2K
(http://www.patriarch.com/remnant17.html)

In this article, the author makes reference to another article from Backwoods Home magazine called Commonsense Preparedness Just Makes Sense. This article can be found at Backwoods Home Magazine - -- the place for self-reliance (http://www.backwoodshome.com).


DAILY UPDATES

Here's a site that has daily updates. More like Gary North's updates rather than Peter De Jagers.

http://www.wild2k.com/dailypicks/intro.html


FREE Y2K VIDEO

I ordered the free video on y2k from Unisys just a few days ago and it came today. It is aimed at businesses but is non-technical. It has various CEO's and CIO's of big companies talking about the impact of y2k, how it can affect them, what they are doing about it, and warns of the interconnectedness of all the economy. I think it is a convincing way of waking up people, esp. if they are in business or deal with any large organization. I am going to use it to show to various people I know.
http://www.marketplace.unisys.com/year2000/srvsprod/tm2kvido.htm


MICROCHIPS IN CARS

Why does a car need to know the date? If you disconnect the battery for a year would this get your car through to 2001?

It is VERY dangerous to make assumptions like this. A lot of companies who are doing their Y2K assessment programs are finding problems in places they didn't expect. Part of the problem is that a lot of equipment uses "generic" chips which have a variety of commonly used features including date handling. If one of these chips is not 2000-compliant, the equipment that is controlled by it may (notice I said "may") malfunction, even though the date functions are not directly relevant to what the equipment does.

And in any case, the year 2001 will present most of the same problems as the year 2000. Shutting things down for a year won't solve anything.


MOYNIHAN'S LETTER

A very prescient letter Sen. Moynihan wrote to the President in 1996 about y2k may be found at:

http://www.survivey2k.com/Moynihan_Letter.html

It only took the Prez 2 years to respond. What's he been thinking about??!


SCARIEST Y2K SITE

This is the scariest Y2K site on the Internet I've seen ever. If you haven't seen it, you must. You don't need anything else but this to give to people.

http://www.csis.org/html/y2ktran2.html


WEBSITES

http://www.justpeace.org/better.htm -- Cookbook for poor people
http://www.y2k-civil-society.org -- Civil Society preparedness for Y2k


Y2K VIDEO??

You can check at their website http://www.cbn.org/the700club/y2k.asp


Y2K COORDINATORS STATE BY STATE

Here are two state sites. The first has e-mail addresses for the Y2K coordinators of each state.
http://www.nasire.org/year2000/coordinators.html

The second shows some general updates about each state. Rhode Island should be given a round of applause for being honest about their problems.
http://www.stateside.com/y2k.html


Y2KCPR

There is a news article about Pat Boone volunteering to be Y2K spokesman at the webpage listed below. On this page there is also a phone number where you can get a free booklet called Y2KCPR, and can order larger quantities for 20 cents each.

http://nt.excite.com/news/bw/980804/y2knet-pat-boone

I find the best daily "y2k news" sites are :

http://www.garynorth.com/y2k/latest_.cfm
http://headlines.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage/Tech/Year_2000_Problem/ http://www.year2000.com/y2karticles.html


Y2K From the EPA

http://www.epa.gov/year2000/