2000 AND ALL THAT...

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There's a lot of talk these days about 'the year 2000' (or, as a lot of magazines are starting to call it, Y2K). It seems, according to the press, that on the 1st January, 2000 all the world's computers are going to stop working (believe me, it doesn't take anything as trivial as the millennium to stop my computer working) and the whole of society is going to be thrown into complete disarray. Personally, I don't believe a word of it: yes, some computer programs will stop working, and some actual computers will think that it's 1900, but I cannot see it being the calamity that is being predicted.

When the press can finally get their minds off crashing computers (it has just occurred to me: I wonder how many journalists have checked their own computers?), and the debate as to whether the millennium starts in 2000 or 2001: they do get around to mentioning the various celebrations which will be accompanying the new millennium.

Not to be outdone, I shall get on to the celebrations which the British Anglican Cursillo Council have in store.

Geoff Riley

There is to be a 'Millennium National Ultreya' which is planned to be held in Canterbury Cathedral, it is hoped that the Archbishop of Canterbury will be present. Arrangements will be announced closer to the time (it is still 2½ years off).

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