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Re: My 9/11 history was erased

audrey jarvis — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:57:36 -0000

i just clearly remember not quite what happened around me when it happened, but i remember being home early from school because they let out early due to the events, and i was like in 5th or 6th grade. when we all got home, my 3 brothers and i, my parents were laying my my oldest brothers room, and we would try to come out to go downstairs to get something to eat, and we would get viciously yelled at for exiting our room. even after like, 2 weeks, if we asked to go out and play, they wouldnt let us unless we were with them, kinda like terrorists were after us indiviually. but i guess i can see where they were coming from. i didnt really realize how many people died and how big of a thing is was until just recently. and honestly it makes me feel bad that i never felt like it was a big deal until i saw the list of names that just kept going and going and going... so as of now i am creating a powerpoint as a tribute to remember all those that died on that tragic day.

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

Michael Bernstein — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 01:39:38 -0000

Jeez. My point wasn't about comments being removed by an entity you don't control, it was about you abandoning comments and posts without making any attempt to retreive them.

As an example: If nothing else would have worked (ie. you couldn't get an export of the data), comments that were left on Haloscan attached to your posts could have been screen-scraped with a few scripts and some elbow-grease *before* you left the service.

No-one but you decided to stop using that comment system. No one but you could have known you would do it. No one but you could have asked for help in retrieving the data before it was gone.

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

Robert Scoble — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 15:43:18 -0000

Michael: OK, can you get comments back that have been removed by an entity I don't control?

I'm fairly certain I won't have those problems with WOrdpress.com.

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

Michael Bernstein — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:34:34 -0000

Robert, this isn't anything new. You've always been incredibly cavalier about preserving the record of your words and those of your commenters. There seems little incentive for me to post any comments on your weblog that require time and thought to compose, since I know that the shelf-life is essentially limited by your next move to a different host, provider, or technology, whether for the weblog itself or the comments.

Your pat answer each time is that you're not a technologist and can't get an export or can't get the data to import or... Well, it's always something, isn't it?

Which is bullshit, because just about each time I tell you that all you have to do is post a request for help, and the LazyWeb will almost certainly provide a solution. Strangely, you've never *ever* followed up on this.

So, I am left with the conclusion that it must actually suit you to have many of these old conversations vanish.

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

Daniel Larson — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:40:15 -0000

Blogs are forever archived in the NewsGator online archive...

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

raincoaster — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:27:14 -0000

I'm DYING to see what Scoble will do to you, spammer.

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

Wesley Parish — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:13:36 -0000

FWLIW, 9/11 2001 wasn't such a shock to me. This sort of thing happens to hundreds of people weekly, all around the world, and nobody thinks to remember them.

The day that I still have vivid memories of, was watching the fall of Saigon on TV, seeing people fighting to board the last remaining choppers lifting off from the US Embassy, the desperate people beseiging the Embassy compounds, the Marines with their service-issue assault rifles standing guard, the choppers landing on the US Navy carriers, then being lightened, smashed up then thrown off the flight deck to make room for yet more people ...

"Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman- a rope over an abyss.
A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going."

Thus Spake Zarathustra

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

LayZ — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:47:17 -0000

"a brilliant black woman speaking so elloquointly" (sic)"

Just curious, what does her race have to do with anything?

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

Darin Codon — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:34:00 -0000

I will leave my 9/11 history here. It begins with me waking up early to clear foliage for an ederly woman and rushing to a Kansas City Internet Cafe to hear the words of Condoleeza Rice.
Rice gave the most incredible speech of which I had watched the day before on CSPAN. The speech was called "The Transparent Nation" and was addressing the Europeon press on our Star Wars tests in Alaska. Condeleeza explained that we in America are free. That we had nothing to hide thus we were sharing what our 9/11 excersizes were about.
I miss the transparent nation - the speech - the ideas - a brilliant black woman speaking so elloquointly in a time of peace. The fear in our hearts is similiar after we found out what was going on so no need to elaborate.Today my only transparency is a lack of Spell check.
But, seeing the media today; I miss Rice and I miss her transparent nation.

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

Steven G. Atkinson — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:29:55 -0000

I guess it's been a good idea that I have been doing monthly archives of my post.

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

Stephen — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:27:02 -0000

I am looking into using Blurb.com's blog -> book service to preserve my blog. There are memories in there I want to keep and share. (http://www.blurb.com/create...

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

Mark — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:11:02 -0000

I'm actually shocked that nobody has a copy of your posts tucked away somewhere, especially considering all the stories I've heard of people trying to delete their blogs, and others still having access to the content - or even reposting it. Perhaps those posts and pictures will turn up...

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

becs — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:13:29 -0000

This has been an interesting post to read and to also read the comments left by others, thankyou.

Its sad that you lost your blog records. Maybe for the future backup you could sub to your own RSS and make a database of your posts.

Just to add to the scenarios, I will never forget 9/11 either. I come from England, UK. It was lunchtime and I turned on the news just watching the headlines and the breaking news came in. I had just move into my flat and I was alone waiting for my friend to move in the next couple of days. I watched the TV avidly and was just shocked when I saw those towers collapse. Totally unexpected and very upsetting, knowing that many of those people had not escaped. I watched the news all day waiting for the latest news of what was happening.

A couple of days later we heard that my family doctor had lost his son in the attacks. He had been out there working for one of the big banking firms Morgan Stanley.

In memory to Ollie Bennett.

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

Teresa — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:02:52 -0000

It's sad and strange how much has changed since then. I was at an autism conference, held at a synagogue in Albuquerque. The TV was in the prayer room. We all stood in front of that TV watching. Then we went back to the conference room. The presenters asked if we should continue. Nobody could answer, really. We were as stunned and overwhelmed as the kids we were there too talk about.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Robert.

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

integrationcoach — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:05:20 -0000

Here is a reference to the same day in 1906 ~ but with a different outcome:
http://integrationcoach.wor...

May we find peace within ourselves today,
Stacy

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

Kevin Burton — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:03:55 -0000

Robert.....

It would look a bit like this:

http://tailrank.com/2006-09-04

Steve Irwin dying was huge news..... the biggest meme since we've launched Tailrank..... I suspect that another 9/11 would look the same.

Kevin

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

Robert Scoble — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:44:08 -0000

Rob, thanks, that's one of them (in retrospect, if there's an image that should be kept it's that one). The other two were black and white showing the towers coming down and the sun frowning.

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

raincoaster — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:43:27 -0000

Robert, sometimes even if the Wayback machine doesn't have something, it'll still be on Yahoo, if not google cache. I've had the strangest luck there.

As for 9/11, as terrible as that day was, the things that happened that day did not define the future as much as the things that happened on 9/12. It's not the actions of terrorists that control a free country, but rather the will of the people and the choices of their government. Our destiny lies in our own hands.

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

hhangel — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:40:56 -0000

Sorry...www.hhangel.wordpress.com

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

hhangel — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:39:05 -0000

Mine and my husbands 9/11 memories (with photos). I live in NNJ and was in Montreal at an airport convention.

www.hhangel.worpree.com

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:38:37 -0000

You're pretty damn cool Scoble.

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

Rob Fahrni — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:59:55 -0000

Robert, I have one of Patricks pictures...

http://rob.crabapples.net/a...

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

TAG — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:32:23 -0000

Setup your own server and post everything you want.

Create backups daily on home PC and burn 2 backup DVDs every 3-6 months with all content and place them in bank deposit box.

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

mike3k — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:16:30 -0000

That morning I was still thinking of the events of the previous Friday, when my company (Teaching Network) laid off more than half of their staff including me. I slept late and woke up when Fedex knocked on my door around 9AM to deliver my CodeWarrior update. At that time I turned on the TV and saw what was happning.

Re: My 9/11 history was erased

Ed Kuryluk — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:37:38 -0000

Over the weekend, I felt my memory of the Twin Towers pre-9/11 had been erased. Until I kicked around wikipedia and WiredNewYork.com.

I recently accepted a new job in the World Financial Center (across the street from the WTC site). Through interviews and pre-employment meetings I've walked by the site many times. Astonishingly, I couldn't remember where things were. Truthfully, I hadn't been to the WTC since the late 80's, but I had been there many times, and in the towers a few times. So last night I started "remembering" pre-9/11 with the help of the internet.

But, we lost more than buildings that day. The people we lost can never be replaced, and certainly we can't erase that. My thoughts, tears and prayers today are for the heros we lost that morning and the loved ones who mourn them. God Bless America.