Y2K +10

Remember how everybody was scared that computers would stop working on January 1st 2000 because maybe somewhere some program would still use two-digit years in their date format?

And how nothing happened.

Instead, it is happening now. The Y2K+10 bug not only took a sizeable percentage of German bank and credit cards temporarily out of commission, the Nazgul and I have seen it affecting public transport here in Munich, too. The system for announcing arrivals and destinations of trains, trams and buses was totally down in New Year's night and still isn't back up everywhere. At the station where she has to catch a bus to get to her new fatally cool job, all electronic signs are replaced by handwritten A4 papers signs that are pastede on yay.-

The bus we took to IKEA today was hit as well; the 'bing' didn't work most of the time, the screen not at all, and the electronic voice announcing the next station was drunk as a skunk.

In other (but still Nazgul-related) news, today she announced by IM that librarians are peculiar, because she had to print out five copies of a 500-page cataloguing guideline. The existence of such a document struck her as somewhat detail-obsessed. I asked her how come she didn't notice that before.-

But actually, she seems to fit in well there. I am still totally green with envy.

Internet addiction and health warning

Do not play catfishing! You can't win, you feel very stupid at times, and it's terribly addicting.