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:CREATED: [2009-05-15 Fri 22:16]
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#+title: January 18, 1 B.C.
#+filetags: humor public

Dear Cassius,

Are you still working on the Y0K problem? This change from BC to AD is giving us a lot of headaches and we haven't much time left. I don't know how people will cope with working the wrong way round. Having been working happily downwards forever, now we have to start thinking upwards. You would think that someone would have thought of it earlier and left it to us to sort out at the last minute.

I spoke to Caesar the other evening. He was livid that Julius hadn't done something about it when he was sorting the calendar. He said he could see why Brutus turned nasty. We called in the consulting astrologer, but he simply said that continuing downwards using minus BC won't work. As usual, the consultant charged a fortune for doing nothing useful. As for myself, I just can't see the sand in an hourglass flowing upwards.

We have heard that there are 3 wise guys in the east working on the problem, but unfortunately they won't arrive till it's all over. Some say the world will cease to exist at the moment of transition. Anyway we are continuing to work on this blasted Y0K problem and I will send you a parchment if anything further develops.

Plutonius
