It upsets me. it also upsets me that not one person who knows him has at least publicly said "he is alive and well and thank you for all your concerns". He deleted his online accounts and then ... is he alive or do we need a police hunt?
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Mark Ryall <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone else feel quite devastated by the recent mysterious > disappearance of _why from the internet? > > He is (almost said was) by far the most extraordinary technologist I can > think of and responsible for what I think are some of the most interesting > ruby projects - markaby, shoes, hpricot, camping, hackety hack. That and > the poignant guide of course. > > A large part of my interest in the ruby community was solely due to him. > While his humour perhaps wasn't to everyone's taste, he certainly had a much > less arrogant or aggressive and incredibly creative approach to software > that I found quite inspiring. > > The performance shooting match between nokogiri and hpricot seemed a little > over the top at the time - most people seem to be speculating about whether > that might have been the cause. > > For me it is considerably more upsetting than the death of Michael Jackson, > Kurt Cobain, Elvis, John Lennon - I never particularly cared about those > people. > > Perhaps i'm just getting old. > > Mark. > > > > -- Dr Nic Williams Mocra - Premier iPhone and Ruby on Rails Consultants w - http://mocra.com twitter - @drnic skype - nicwilliams e - [email protected] p - +61 412 002 126 or +61 7 3102 3237 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
