DISQUS

Linkmeister · 7 years ago

Because of time zones I didn't even know about it until 1215EDT (0615HST). The tragedy was doubly surreal because we weren't awake at the time it occurred, so we saw the original atrocity tape-delayed. Obviously, the rest we saw live.

dan · 7 years ago

I went both ways, a splash page and a story on the blog...

robyn · 7 years ago

I'm actually glad that some people are going to keep blogging -- that way you don't lose complete touch. I'm very happy to see people making the choice that's best for them.

wKen · 7 years ago

I do remember blogs having more current and personal information that day, while the TV news kept repeating what little they knew and showing the same unbelievable videos over and over. I found the Internet more comforting.

kd · 7 years ago

can't imagine facing this without blogging. blogging is my lifeline, this connection to my friends.

Monkey! · 7 years ago

Myself, I have to work this evening, and I'm sure the video store will be a ghost town, as everyone will be home watching television. I remember driving around nine p.m. last year and wondering at the empty streets, so different from any other Tuesday. I came home and got on the net. I, too, felt it more comforting than anything else.

I'll be blogging.

Mike · 7 years ago

TripleB is still going, I've spent 2 weeks writing the entry for it and it's already online. I remember sitting at the computer all that afternoon (It was afternoon in the UK when the planes hit, around 1:43pm if the news is correct, which is just before 9am in New York). You've just reminded me to write about where I was when it happened, and what happened after, because last year I never did write about that. I remember a lot of blogs and services going down, partly because some of the companies that routed internet services apparently had equipment in the twin towers, and partly because so many people were trying to find out what was happening. I also remember a lot of worries about mg and bobthecorgi (IIRC) who hadn't updated their blogs.

kd · 7 years ago

thanks, Mike, for your perspecive on what happened, and also the coming war. i know that my country is doing things the rest of the world finds highly objectionable, and i don't know what to say.

Mike · 7 years ago

The entry about what I was doing at the time is up now.

It's not just what your country is doing that we find objectionable, it's what our Prime Minister is doing. George Michael's video got it spot on, Blair seems far too interested in following on Bush's coat-tails than in actually being diplomatic. I mean it's taken him this long to recall Parliament, something which should have been done at the start of the week.

Both leaders are too intent on leading us into war, but Bush is the biggest problem of them all, as he has shown very little signs of wanting diplomacy. After Clinton, who had his flaws and made a very big mistake, but who I liked for his approach to his Presidency, Bush comes as a very big slap in the face. Half the time I wonder if he's the one in charge or not, the other half I spend wondering if he only has one solution to everything. The fact that what he does affects the UK so greatly scares me more than the threats following 9/11

Chicken Little · 7 years ago

Happy Anniversary, KD.

kd · 7 years ago

yes. comfort. it was a lifeline for me. a connection to something less ugly and sensationalized as the video clips on repeat, over and over.

Christine · 7 years ago

Good point. I might keep blogging through the day - it depends on what words need to come out. Like you and many others, the internet is my comfort. We'll see what the day brings.