The Silly Season

This article is entitled "The Silly Season" and I thought I would just have to write about some of the daft, crazy things I've come across lately (and I'm sure you have too!).

First of all then...

Y2K Blues?

Fed up of Y2K? Do you think that planes will fall from the sky or those cash machines will be empty and there will be no food in the supermarkets?

If so - fear not - help is at hand! You can go on a "Y2K Break" in New Zealand from December 1999 to March 2000. Apparently, you will be pampered with your own chauffeur driven car, separate water and sewage system - all mod cons so that you can get away from all the Y2K stress.

Apparently you can even extend your break if the Y2K bug strikes harder than people thought. The cost? A cool £125000 ($200000).

Now I think that these breaks shouldn't be for the mega rich but they should be given away free to all of us poor *** Use your own expletive *** who have been working on Y2K and are sick to death of it! Any volunteers to pay my £125000? No - I thought not! By the way - that's the STARTING price so you can bet you can get something much more expensive!

Intel At It

Did you read last week's article? (Why not!). I mentioned then about Intel and Co bringing out new chips faster than lawsuits hitting politicians. Well it now seems that the Pentium II is dead. A "convenient" chip shortage in Pentium II's means that new machines will have to have Pentium III chips.

I think as users we have a right to have some kind of "future proofing" when we buy computer equipment. If all you can buy is Pentium III's how long before developers stop supporting Pentium II technology and effectively force us users to upgrade.

Talking of upgrading. I remember when the original Pentium was released. People were up in arms about the change in chip shape saying you always had to buy a new motherboard with the new chips. It was said at the time that this will be a thing of the past with the new Pentium as the socket was designed to take any future upgrades so that after the Pentium, you wouldn't be forced to replace your motherboard as well. Whatever happened to that idea?

Car Boot Catastrophe

I don't know if Car Boot sales are common outside of Britain. I expect other countries have them - they consist of large numbers of people selling all kinds of everything out of the backs of their cars. You can rent a stall and sell just about anything.

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