Today has been declared a national day of remembrance here in the US. A few different suggestions are rolling around on how to commemorate this today, including wearing red, white, and blue to driving with your headlights on, and "In a proclamation, Bush asked Americans and places of worship to mark the day with noon memorial services, complete with the ringing of bells at that hour, and to hold evening candlelight remembrance vigils." The most widespread plan I've heard of seems to be to have a moment of silence tonight at 7:00 PM EDT where folks are asked to step outside their homes and light candles. There are apparently things like this happening internationally, as well, for instance Frans tells me that in his homeland of the Netherlands and the entirety of Europe observed a three minute moment of silence at noon (Dutch time) today, which was 6:00 AM EDT.

Turns out my talk of my DSL connection being better yesterday was a tad premature. It seems that the power to my ISP point of presence in Manhattan was being supplied by an emergency generator that overheated yesterday (I imagine dust and debris clogged its cooling vents) and it is offline until further notice. I just wish my modem could stay connected for more than two minutes straight, but even more so, I wish that this was the biggest problem that anyone was having with this situation, rather than one of the most trivial.