Into the millennium...

(Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities, 1905-42)

Mt. Ætna (Sebastian Münster, Cosmographia, ca. 1552)

nd hemmed in as we may be by the increasing mutness of the abstract, each man a victim of the iciest necessity, flung into nothingness, his ego flung to the winds -- it is the breath of the Absolute that sweeps across the world, and from our dim inklings and gropings for truth there will spring up the high-day and holiday assurance with which we shall know that every man has the divine spark in his soul and that our oneness cannot be forfeited; unforfeitable the brotherhood of humble human creatures, from whose deepest anguish there shines unforfeitable and unforfeited the anguish of a divine grace, the oneness of all men, gleaming in all things, beyond all Space and all Time; the oneness in which all light has its source and from which there springs the healing of all living things -- symbol of a symbol, image of an image, emerging from the destiny that is sinking in darkness....

(Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers, 1928-31)

This page loaded at: See 1999 to 2000 ("Y2k") millennium year date rollover, as I saw it In 2007, Daylight Savings Time (DST) was moved forward 3 weeks in the Spring. Many computer programs threatened to show the wrong time unless patched. It was a kind of mini-Y2k. The potential consequences were less serious; but the data processing community was less prepared. E.g.: Just 3 days before the new DST was to go into effect, Sun Microsystems was hit with panicked problem reports from customers and had to issue a hasty alert: Sun Alert 102836: Olson TZ Incompatibility Issues. (See question from one industry newsletter, below.)	"A downpour of bombs and scoriae."
View late December 1999 storm damage to Notre Dame cathedral (Paris)! ~ Also: Damage to Florida USA church steeple by September 2004 hurricane Frances. Russian nuclear submarine Kursk disaster (12Aug00). Supersonic passenger jet Concorde (SST) crash (25Jul00). 2000 ended with: U.S. Presidential election debacle (07Nov00). Right: Mt. Ætna erupting, July 2001. (More pictures: -1-|-2-|-3-) Palestinian terrorist leader assassinated by Israeli rocket attack (Jul?01). World Trade Center towers (NYC) destroyed by hijacked commercial airplanes, aka: "911" (11Sep01). 2001: Stanley Kubrick vs Osama bin Laden. The 20th Century: The century of barbed wire. 2003: SARS / 2006: "Bird flu" (H5N1). Some useful words to know in the new millennium.
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