Thoughts from Mr. Millennium
February 1, 1999
"76 trombones in America, a hundred and ten cornets fill the air." 76 Oil Company recently signed up with Club 2000 under our web site design and hosting division. I don't usually talk about our Internet design service but we have some recent sites that are dealing with new technologies and are worth mentioning. www.tefgard.com is a site that deals with IV tubing. The owner/inventor came to Club 2000 with the invention and the desire to do all of his business through the Internet. He markets a small device that is designed to keep all the IV lines separated in order to avoid entanglements. Since his business has gone online he has sold thousands of the device. Another site designed by Club 2000 that harbors new technologies is Packaging Innovators Corp. (PIC) Currently they are gearing up for the packaging of Star Wars merchandise for the new up coming "Episode 1" due out this spring. PIC has a new packaging machine called the Tanabe. The Tanabe is a huge machine that prints, packages and attaches labels all in one continuos motion. Our most recent client is www.medison.com from Pleasanton California. Medison is a rapidly growing company in the field of diagnostic ultrasound. Medison is leading the health care industry into a 3D ultrasound revolution. The ultrasonic images produced by the Medison device are detailed enough to provide diagnostic information that has already lead to successful surgeries prior to birth. Medison will be featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show in two weeks. The Medison site is currently under development by our web designers. Another web design scoop is that Club 2000 is in the process of designing a one stop shop for Millennium merchandise. Among the licensed products are the Smiley series, Mr. & Miss. Millennium, Party 2000, and Club 2000. Due in March 1999. For info about a webpage for your business, CLICK HERE.
www.by.mm
January 25, 1999
Many people E-mail Club 2000 asking us what we think will happen on 01-01-00 concerning the Y2K Bug. The collapse of our infrastructure is a theme often heard by speakers on the issue, selling a book or seminar that will help you survive the Y2K. To one church in California Y2K stands for year-2-kneel. That's certainly better advice than: "head for the hills." You can read a fairly comprehensive article written by our webmaster on the home page under Y2K. My words of wisdom is this: Unlike other disasters like a tornado, flood or earth quake, the Y2K is completely predictable and the closer the date arrives the more details of what will work and what wont work will be known. There will be plenty of time to buy the necessary food and supplies in case their is a momentary disruption for a couple of days. The bigger danger is probably over reaction or panic 30 days before. One spokesperson for a telephone company said his worst fear is that a large number of people might panic concerning the phone service and all pick up the phone one minute after midnight 2000. The result he said would be a complete crash of the phone system, (unrelated to Y2K.)
Don't panic,
M.M.
January 11, 1999
The CEO of Club 2000 will be designing nearly all of the merchandise
for Party 2000, (he designed their current logo.) Check it out on their site at www.party2000.com.
Ms. Millennium (Venessa Bragg) received a GLOBAL PEACE award from Club 2000 on Dec.
1st, 1998. It was presented by the governer of Arizona, Jane Hull. I will be producing
a record with her during the spring break 1999 (based on the Millennium Alphabet)
Peace for the next Millennium,
M.M.
January 1, 1999
The Fremont Chamber of Commerce has decided to join with Club 2000,
Inc. to launch the "Millennium Times" in the San Francisco Bay Area. Cheryl
Maloney, director of the annual festival of the arts "Fremont" is inviting
event directors covering ten counties to a planning meeting on January 19th. The
Millennium Festival will span two and a half years, participating events will feature
a letter from the Millennium Alphabet's "Bonds Of Love" written by George
Heiner. The majority of Millennium events in the United States are centered primarily
around December 1999 through January 2000, and involve single city efforts. "The
Millennium Times" will cover the largest area geographically and be one of the
largest running events in the United States. It will expose over five million people
per year to the symbols of the "Millennium Alphabet" during 1999, 2000,
and 2001.
And the fat lady will sing,
M.M.
July 31, 1998
Safe travelling, M.M.
April 13, 1998
Bugs and more bugs, M.M.
According to CTO magazine (2/98) 67% of corporate technology executives do not believe that the millennium computer bug will be fixed by Dec. 31st, 1999.
CRASH !
During the last week of March, 1998 U.S. officials admitted that they've
fixed only 35% of the most vital federal mainframes and won't have time before Dec.
31st, 1999 to prevent all the remaining 5,100 from crashing…
Time Magazine 3/30/98.
Midnight Millennium
CD is now available.
If you are planning an event for the year 2000 this is the time to
order the official "Computer Crash Song™ " Special one time price
breaks exist for orders over 100; until June 1st, 1998. E-mail us your fax no. for a bulk order form.
In addition to the release of the CD we have scheduled the shooting of it's matching
video for world wide release. Besides ladies from NASA, Peter de Jager and
possibly computer employees at SUN and IBM; Club 2000 is also looking for participation
from those involved in year 2000 events. If you are interested in being featured
on our "Computer Crash Song™" Please E-mail the webmaster at Club 2000.
Tic, Tic, Tic,
M.M.
See you at the starting line, M.M.
Banking on a new thought, MM
Club2000 had it's first experience with the collectible market when it printed the first phone card with an internet address on it, for Christmas 1995. Only a hundred phonecards were printed under the Amerivox label. Collectors in the industry have estimated it's unwrapped value to be approximately $5000.
Club2000 remains to be the first company to have focused directly on the year 2000 and the first one to offer collectible merchandise. In light of the Newsweek issue, collectible insiders have already told us that the number of signed CD give-aways offered only free through our Contest 2000 may later become one of the most treasured collectibles of the year 2000. See previous Millennium thought on July 28th for more info.
Collecting more thoughts, M.M.
This week's thought focuses on the center of things. One man was so inspired by his one true love, who was at the center of his life, that he founded a city in California named after her, Felicity. He also registered it as "the center of the world." Besides a few other one of a kind objects, they also have "the wall of the ages." For $50.00 they will engrave your name on the wall. You can also visit the www.centerofworld.com on the net. I believe Club2000 should be your center of the universe for 2000 and the future millennium, if it is - you won't miss a thing!
Also, include an M-Word on your websight. Remember an M-Word is the word that will act as the central theme of your life in the future. Link it to my definition of M-Words. The first 100 web sites to do so will receive a signed CD by me. This CD is our release of "Midnight Millennium™" due out by August 31, 1997. For more details about this contest you visit Contests 2000 . See you at the center of the world, MM.
Another interactive millennium project looking for additional funding is "Technopolis" - a major facility in Norwick. This is a digital city that houses a millennial library and a virtual library offering worldwide data access, you can check out more projects under their Millennnium Newsletter under our News 2000. Until next time, MM
The White House contacted Club 2000 the first week of April, just prior to the presentation, and asked that we delay the presentation due to the rising tensions in the Middle East. Because of President Clinton's travel schedule, and the injury involving his knee, our meeting has been tentatively rescheduled for a September presentation.
To see the winning letters of peace go to Contests2000 category.
Until next time, MM
20,000 Christians will be participating in Servant 2000, a 10-day rally that will include the first Christian service (at first light) with the theme of hope. For those of you who don't know, New Zealand is where the sun will first rise for the new Millennium.
Another event for at Gisborne, New Zealand, is the Pepsi First Light Festival - already it is attracting more than 40,000 people each year between Christmas and the end of January. It is expected to swell to over 100,000 by the year 2,000.
Check out these and other events under our EVENTS 2000 category. If you would like to register your event for the Year 2000, send us an e-mail with the information. Until next time, MM
Alan Simpson predicts a lot of companies will experience a crash in their stock that will mirror "the computer crash of 2000". The dip may even come sooner as companies are forced in early 1998 to disclose their risks of the "crash of 2000." For up-to-date interviews and issues, join Alan Simpson at www.comlinks.com . We also have links to conferences and trainings for companies researching the problem and looking for answers see - UNISYS. Until next time, MM
"A FLAT TAX RATE BY 2000" You can quote Mr. Millennium on that. Three weeks ago, the $4.1 Billion Supercomputer that the IRS was going to use was scrapped. Who else can make that kind of mistake? So the IRS, like other computer dependent agencies all around the world will not be ready for the year 2000 date change. SO, unless it's done manually (highly unlikely)...It will no doubt be a simpler flat tax rate beginning with the year 2000.
Back to the banks... we don't expect all the banks to make the July '97 deadline. Sources have said that some of the smaller banks may never make it at all, or they may merge resources. Check out more on the Year 2000 COMPUTER PROBLEM under Y2kNEWS 2000
Until next time, MM
(Soon to be...archived old thoughts!)
WORLD PEACE CONTEST
March 1, 1997
M-peaceª, Peace is my M-wordª for the next month. I've
launched a peace letter writing contest (see http://www.contests2000.com).
It's open to high school and college students. April 6,1997 will be 1000 days before
Jan.1, 2000, check out all the planned events at http://www.worldpeace.com. They
are predicting a shortage of Champaign on Jan. 1, 2000, so now you can buy stock
in the only bottles that will be available. It's being sold as Champaign2000.
Cheers, MM.
THE "OO'S" ARE COMING
February 1, 1997
During the last several decades, media people have referred to
the various decades as the '50's, '60's, 70's, 80's and 90's. In the year 2000 and
beyond, what will people be calling that decade - the "00's"? How
will they pronounce it? How will they differentiate the 1920's from the 2020's since
the roaring 20's has been well talked about?
Cheers, MM.
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