Rachel Kroll
It's that time again, when code written in the past four years shows up in our lives and breaks something. Still, while you're enjoying the clown show of game companies telling people to manually set the clocks on their consoles and people not being able to fill up their cars, keep one thing in mind:
Only half of the fun of a leap year happens on February 29th.
The rest of it happens in ten months, when a bunch more code finds out that it's somehow day 366, and promptly flips out. Thus, instead of preparing to party, those people get to spend the day finding out why their device is being stupid all of the sudden.
So, if you got through today unscathed, but are somehow counting days in the year somewhere, you now have about 305 days to make sure you don't have your own Zune bug buried in your own code.
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One more random thought on the topic: some of today's kids will be around to see what happens in 2100. That one will be all kinds of fun to see who paid attention to their rules and who just guessed based on a clean division by four.