Happy New Year!

25 years ago today, I was sitting in a War Room at McAfee in California, as we were tracking the progress of 12:00 AM and Y2K defects across the globe as the clock ticked over in each time zone. Then we put on lab coats and pretended to be scientists when the CNN news van showed up as they filmed us in the data center that somehow lost internet connectivity right before midnight.

I ran upstairs and copied files and software from floppies elsewhere and loaded them on computers to make it look like everything was working properly. A guy dressed as Batman was spotted on the rooftop across the street. Some alcohol may have been involved.

Then I played Age of Empires and slept comfortably under my desk all night for x5 overtime pay.

Magnus

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