Add to the list the German variant "Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren!"

McGrath, the Y2K issues was no joke, and I am still very surprised how few major catastrophes occurred; I am especially surprised that more embedded and forgotten controller ships didn't turn up with date-sensitive architecture. But I have heard enough actual reports of whole factories shutting down mid-job during remediation testing, and complex systems wrapping themselves around phone poles because the mismanaged date field was souring data transfers or forcing logical loops in whacky ways ... that I am very grateful as much remediation occurred as did. Had it not occurred, I am confident we would have inherited a lot more chaos.

Also, with all due respect, computer gurus right now are not at any risk of being out of work. Over here, anyway, the unemployment rate is the lowest it has been in years and anyone competent in a technical field has a premium on his head as a desireable employee because there are so many fronts on which new technologies are being deployed.