Re:Meet Peter de Jager, Now-Maligned Y2K Consultan (Score 1)

I sent him a thank-you note ([e-mail]). Here we have a techie working hard to do the right thing, and his reward for helping solve the problem is to be called a scumbag charlatan.

Perhaps somebody in the UK should go over to the London Times offices and offer to remove all the Y2K fixes they're relying on right now, starting with PC motherboards...

Lesson for the future: when you fix something, don't be quietly proud of your work - issue a press release that includes a detailed description of what would have happened if you hadn't fixed it. If you don't explain it to the non-techies, they'll just assume that it's no big deal. The average person's exposure to technical problem solving mainly consists of TV and movie characters fixing a bug in alien software with three keystrokes!