Nat Friedman, the creator of ximian and somewhat of a personal hero of mine, has been dying.  Not in real life (I hope) but his online presence.  Back in the day, nat was all over the place.  He’d blog about giving ximian talks in france, skiing in the alps, riding his bike 200 miles along the eastern seaboard, all sorts of rad things.

But slowly, like a picture of Marty from Back To the Future, good ole Nat’s been disappearing.  First it was the month of March which went completely un-blogged.  Then we got a few more tidbits of info, then another blank month in May.  June saw two last posts, and since then, silence.

A month back I went looking for his oft-updated Flickr account, and found it to be simply gone.  There were a few pictures from other people’s galleries that had tagged him, but the repository of Nat pictures was just not to be found.

And today, visiting his site, his masthead of a picture is gone, leaving a simple text page in its place.  If this keeps up, even that shall soon be gone.

I feel like someone, somewhere, should be playing a midi version of “Taps”.