Is that what we're celebrating... squirrelly computers? <G> What you refer to is the "Y2K bug" focus which is a real and relatively minor disturbance, compared to what's going to happen in the streets of downtown Vegas on New Years Eve. <VBG>

Y2K is a cute and reasonably correct acronym for the year 2000, and of course the excitement is on the odometer roll, flipping a significant digit, the transition from the 1900s to the 2000s. It's a significant numerological event, and deserves all the hype and party hats it can muster. But we made it through 1984 without Big Brother rewriting history, so facts still am still facts... and the fact is, the year 2000 will be the 2000th year of the Christian/Gregorian calendar. It will be the last year of the 200th decade, the 20th century, and the second millennium. The third millennium does not begin until January 1, 2001.

Unless of course someone can explain why the architects of our calendar would number the first day of every month "1" and yet numbered the first year "0". Until then I remain convinced the first year was year 1, and you can start counting from there. I hereby coin the term "millemmingums" to refer to the followers of those mathematically challenged hypesters.