In the mid 1990s, I walked out of a vacuuous meeting of Deloitte Consulting Group management consultants and sat by the hotel lake wondering why I had wasted my time attending.
I wrote this doggerel in an attempt to capture the scorn I felt.
Song of the Year 2000
"What did you do in the Great...
Yes, it was a strange night. I had been providing assurance of the Y2K programme at NATS (the UK air traffic services provider). NATS set up an action room over that night and late on 32st Dec the Scottish Control Centre called to say they thought their radars had failed as they were getting no...
Twenty years ago, we were waiting to see whether the billions of dollars and thousands of person years spent finding and correcting the Y2K problem (aka Millennium Bug) had been successful.
To remind you: there were three major problems (and a few minor ones - for full details see the paper...