The industry has long since passed you by and Y2K is probably the best example of that. So please allow me to intersperse my postmortem analysis with selected text from one of your most famous diatribes. They were there, Ed, up close and personal. They were looking for any and every Y2K glitch they could find. They still are, in fact.
Problem is, there was and is no news to report.
No city turned into Beirut. No chemical plants exploded. Even New York City, which resembles Beirut in some places even in the best of times, made it through the rollover, no sweat. You might also tell your pal Jim Lord that no utility in the US suffered a serious Y2K failure. But Ed, didn't your book cover say Saturday, January 1, 2000.