According to a popular misinterpretation of the Western calendar, this is the day before the new millennium. I stopped by the office for a couple hours. Nothing to do. Justin and Eric were on top of things.

I booked my thusly non-occupied butt to CWRU for a rare lunch rendezvous with David Carlin at Charlie's Place. We were joined by David's old-school friends Tim Gallagher (also Unix lab assistant) and Dan Dzina, plus Ian and Froggy. Ian recounted a story in which he and a friend each entered a dormitory dryer and closed the door. When the antagonist opened his dryer's door, Ian responded “Hey! Get your own!” Even funnier if you have met this particular antagonist (as I have). David shared some good stories too.

After lunch, I went home. What a treat! I used the time to rewrite my old Perl “404 Not Found” program in PHP. It's now faster and more featureful.

Took a Y2K nap so I could hold out for midnight and be ready for OhioOnline damage control, if needed. Tony and Pat drove separately to Joe's party so I could drive myself to the office in case of problems.

There were no problems. Anywhere. Nothing distinguishable from a day-to-day glitch, except for the particular day. Every time someone cries apocalypse, he should read Julian Simon. As should I, since I haven't gotten around to reading him myself!

Having napped and returned home from the party, I stayed up quite late coding up some PHP to power the daily journal. Daily entries no longer require HTML markup: PHP takes care of it as the entries are sent to the browser. Neato! (Naturally, I wrote a Perl program to convert the old-style entries over.)