11 September 2003In your dreams, palThe first blast came at 5:14, and I sleepily did the math: yes, it's the 11th of September, and yes, I'm within five miles of Tinker Air Force Base, and yes, if they take out Tinker, there's a good chance I'm going with it. A second eruption, the lights flickered, and finally it dawned on me that this was not any kind of military operation at all; it was nothing more than a very loud but otherwise unremarkable Oklahoma thunderstorm. A bit of paranoia, I think, is probably hard-coded into the genome as a survival enhancement. Incidentally, this site was hit with a Denial of Service attack last evening. (Well, not just this site everything on the host was being hit but there are relatively few blogs on this host, so you might not have noticed it elsewhere.) The attack was brought under control after about twenty-five minutes, but it's yet another reminder that we all have our little vulnerabilities. |