Try to remember the kind of September...

So listening to NPR is really depressing this morning - not shocking, like it was a year ago, just sad.

I was looking at something I put up about a year ago (on the 12th), and I realized that it probably doesn't mean anything to anyone but me, but I'll repeat it here anyway.

First, though, a bit of explanation: one of our machines at work gets data from Reuters; this data is coming in all the time throughout the day, and at one point an automatic process at Reuters' data center would log in to our system and send data pretty much once every five minutes or more. Anyway, here's what I found in the logs when I looked on the 12th:

# pwd
/var/log/ncftpd
# ls -t xfer* | head -1 | xargs tail -1 | cut -c 1-20
2001-09-11 09:06:17

Translation: in the ftp logs, from the most recent log, from the last entry, the last timestamp was 2001-09-11 09:06:17. After that, nothing.

I then checked the possibilities of pulling the data from reuters instead of having them push it to us:

# ftp datascope.reuters.com
ftp: connect: No route to host
ftp>

That's a bit of an understatement; Reuters had during August moved their data center to their offices in the world trade center.