RIP Michael P Phillipson

Saad rang me last night to inform me that Michael P Phillipson recently passed away. I can't claim to have known him well, we spoke once or twice and I knew his name (and his middle initial) because he always signed everything with it. I knew he started out as a freeware aficionado but then got in bed with Microsoft and spent a year with them as part of his year out (I currently work in the building next door to where he spent his year in industry). He never looked well and, I am told, whatever it was that made him look unwell finally caught up with him.

His blog was last updated in 2005, not long after graduation. I know he moved to Liverpool to work, but what exactly he got up to between then and now I do not know...

Whenever I hear of people my own age dying it always reminds me of my own mortality. :-/

Update

Saad dropped me an email to say that Michael moved his blog to Blogspot in October of 2005. His last update on there was in January last year. Link.