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Allen M. Cooley, an industrial hygienist with the Newspaper Association of America, was certified as an Associate Safety Professional by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals, Savoy, Ill.

J. William Cox was named senior vice president of A.H. Belo Corp.’s publishing division. He had previously served as senior vice president of The Dallas Morning News.

Joe Michaud was named president of Guy Gannett Communications’ New Media Development Group, which became part of Blethen Maine Newspapers Nov. 2. He had previously been the group’s online editor.

Robert W. Mong Jr. was named president and general manager for The Dallas Morning News. He has also served as vice president of parent A.H. Belo’s publishing division.

Barry Peckham was named executive vice president of operations of The Dallas Morning News. He had previously been the paper’s senior vice president for information technology.

Fritzi G. Pikes was named senior vice president of finance and administration at The Dallas Morning News. She had served as A.H. Belo’s vice president of internal audit.

Philip S. Viener was named vice president of marketing for CareerPath.com in Los Angeles.

Michael G. Williams was named vice president and chief information officer of The New York Times. He had held a similar position with the Seagram Co.

Vendors

Jim Baird will head Bethlehem, Pa.-based GMA Inc.’s on-site GMA Academy program and related follow-up implementation at customer facilities.

Alex Brnilovich was appointed senior vice president for North America by Goss Graphic Systems, Westmont, Ill.

Anders Christiansen was named chief executive officer of the Danish firm Saxotech A/S.

Ron Frantz has been named in-house administrator of GMA Inc.’s GMA Academy program.

David N. Friedman was named director of energy policy at the American Forest & Paper Association, Washington, D.C.

Jim Golinski was named director of customer service and project management for GMA Inc.

Peter Kelts was named vice president of technical services for Managing Editor Inc., Jenkintown, Pa.

A Y2K Singalong

Editor’s note: TechNews contributor L. Carol Christopher sent us the following song by e-mail. Carol is not the author—she was simply forwarding the message. In fact, we traced the message back through four people at The Cole Group and Managing Editor Inc. before the trail went cold. If the author is in our audience, please step forward and we will give you credit in our next issue.

It is sung to the tune of “Gilligan’s Island,” more or less.

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale
Of the doom that is our fate.
That started when programmers used
Two digits for a date.
Two digits for a date.
Main memory was smaller then;
Hard disks were smaller, too.
“Four digits are extravagant,
So let’s get by with two.
So let’s get by with two.”
“This works through 1999,”
The programmers did say.
“Unless we rewrite before that
It all will go away.
It all will go away.”
But Management had not a clue:
“It works fine now, you bet!
A rewrite is a straight expense;
We won’t do it just yet.
We won’t do it just yet.”
Now when 2000 rolls around
It all goes straight to @#%&,
For zero’s less than ninety-nine,
As anyone can tell.
As anyone can tell.

The mail won’t bring your pension check
It won’t be sent to you
When you’re no longer sixty-eight,
But minus thirty-two.
But minus thirty-two.
The problems we’re about to face
Are frightening, for sure.
And reading every line of code’s
The only certain cure.
The only certain cure.
(key change, big finish)
There’s not much time,
There’s too much code.
(And COBOL-coders, few)
When the century is finished with,
We may be finished, too.
We may be finished, too.
Eight thousand years from now I hope
That things weren’t left too late,
And people aren’t then lamenting
Four digits for a date.
Four digits for a date.

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A Y2K Singalong

TechNews Volume 4, Number 5: September/October 1998

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