Well, it's been a couple of days since the plane crashes. Some observations:

1. At this point, I don't believe Bin Laden did it. Might have known about it, but I don't think he masterminded it. I could be wrong about that. We'll see.

2. Stuff like this can happen at any time. Anyone can load a truck up with fertilizer and such and park it in front of a building. Also, there's a long border between us and Canada and Mexico. Impossible to patrol all of it all the time.

3. The next time a plane gets hijacked with knives, there isn't a chance in hell the passengers are going to let it go on. You might kill the first one or two of us to get to you, but it's still only a knife. As a caveat, I was in the Navy for 10 years and knew some SEALS. A really well-trained man with a knife could take out 10 of me. In the crowded space of a plane, though, I'd just throw myself at him, let him kill me, and figure the rest of the passengers would pile on. Better to die in a field in Pennsylvania than in a building in New York. More peaceful. :)

4. I'm not particularly angry at anyone. As an atheist, I don't have any religious hangups about revenge, retribution, and such, but I can't get too upset about this, for some reason. In the 1950's, the CIA executed a coup in Iran. The Iranian people didn't like who we put in charge and a few years later, overthrew the Shah and installed some people who didn't like the US at all as leaders. Then, we built up Iraq in it's war with Iran. We all know how that turned out. In addition, we support Israel (which I'm fine with), but they've been unable/unwilling to make peace. So we're helping their enemy. Lots of people over there hate us for the above reasons and others. Can't say that their actions are justified, but I believe their emotions have some validity. So they attacked us, which BTW, there have been warnings for about 2 months. We chose to ignore them.

I guess there's some other stuff I could rant about, but I think that's enough for now.

Just had another submission rejected. Guess I'll never become one of those guys that gets a submission approved. Woe is me. Just for the record, it was about the bootloader issue in conjunction with BeOS. Wonder what you have to do to get an article approved? Seemed like this was a pretty good submission.

Well, it's the first Monday after the new slash code, so of course I have to try this out. Wonder if there's an archiving feature, or if it's just going to be one long page after a while.