Warding Off Y2K Are you worrying about your office computer, that linchpin of your homebased business.

Are you busy stockpiling water, cash, canned fruit and powergenerators for that magic moment: midnight, January 1, 2000? Ifyou've had spare time, maybe you've also squeezed in someworrying about your office computer, that linchpin of yourhomebased business. Now that I'm working from home, I'vebeen thinking about my laptop. It's a couple years old, from atime before Y2K was nightly news.

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