Dates With Destiny

My fascination with dates that have numerical patterns has resulted in at least two entries: March 3, 2003 (03/03/03) and February 20, 2002 (20-02-2002) are examples. I missed yesterday (04/04/04) — although Blogger's "Change Time & Date" feature would allow me to pretend I hadn't — but I did think ahead to latter patterns in this decade.

So, fast forward with me to 2007. July 7 (07/07/07) will fall on a Saturday, the traditional seventh day of the calendar week. I'm guessing there is a high probability we'll see these things:

1. The religious superstitious will freak, and we'll hear all sorts of Second Coming talk again, as we did at the turn of the millenium.
2. We'll see some evil nasty virus-y worm-y thing, taking advantage of some obscure new security loophole introduced in Windows Longhorn.^*

From the religious-superstitious perspective, I think I'm relieved that June 6, 2006 (06/06/06) is a Tuesday, not a Friday or Sunday. But I'd still keep that anti-virus software up-to-date that week if I were you.

^* Not that I would ever advocate such a thing. Just to be clear.