Two years on

It's been two years tonight our time since the terrorist attacks in New York. Seeing the footage still affects me quite deeply.

I was actually at cia when I heard about it. Gamera had a faulty ide backup disk, and after a reboot it didn't come back, so I called up Marc and we went into the office to kick it. After removing the offending disk altogether, Marc said that the World Trade Centre had been hit by a plane - someone had told him on icq. We looked up some news sites and saw a picture on the BBC website. It also said both towers had been hit, so I immediately thought of a deliberate attack. I had no idea of the severity of the situation until I got home and turned on the tv. Almost immediately I realised how historic and terrible this was going to be, and started up the vcr recording.

I watched in total disbelief for the next 4 hours, talking to Marc and Horst online who also couldn't go to sleep. I only got about 3 hours sleep before getting up early to watch the morning news coverage. I don't think any of us got any work done the next day.

Just watching the news now; it feels kind of strange to be sitting here in exactly the same position at my computer as the previous two years.

And now to fight terrorism of a different kind - patching all my servers against the latest microsoft exploit :/