A Day in Paradise

in his apartment – did he own AAPL???

I met Bertrand ‘toggg’ Gugger at LinuxTag 2005, and have chatted with him frequently on IRC since then. Yesterday I heard that toggg passed away on June 17th from a heart attack.

Toggg was a funny guy, he loved programming and being involved with the communities to which he contributed code. His grasp of written English was such that it gave way to both great comedy, and the occasional flamewar on the mailing list. He was passionate about what he worked on, and held a great grip on regular expressions.

He will be missed.

More information about the projects he was involved in here.

Russian former spy dies

I love the hypocricy which surrounds the glorification/demonization of spies.

From the Perl Foundation Blog

This week the Perl community lost one of its long time contributors, Nick Ing-Simmons, who died of a heart attack on Monday September 25th 2006.

Nick joined the Perl community in the early days of Perl 5. He consistently contributed to the perl5-porters mailing list and later became pumpkin for 5.003_02 where he added the initial implementation of the PerlIO layer.

Some of my first programming projects dealt heavily with Perl/TK. I never met nick but followed the mailing lists and partook of his tireless efforts for the advancement of Perl/TK and Perl in general. He will be missed.

Thanks, Nick

Sad news today, Robert Levin founder of Freenode (previously Open Projects Network) passed away after being hit by a car while riding his bike. Despite the controversies the surrounding the his operation of the two networks, the incredible effort that he made has helped millions of computer users and open-source projects around the world.

While he will be missed, I have no doubt that the infrastructure that he put so much work into will continue on and contine to support the community.

Some quick thoughts Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams execution.

Savetookie.org
Some notable quotes here. The “Redemption” Movie

And like aways, grab the show right here.