Gonna miss ya…

Last night a friend passed along the news that Leslie Harpold had passed away unexpectedly and I just sat at the computer for a while, stunned and sad.

I didn't know Leslie well; we met a couple of times and have a ton of mutual friends. I knew her best from the web, as seems to be the case with so many folks in my life these days. She was the publisher of Smug, one of those wonderfully canny webzines that sprung up on the early personal web and one of the best to boot. And, of course, for the past few years, I had delighted in her annual Advent calendar, mentioned here a few days ago and part of her wonderful personal website.

Sunday as I was preparing for our annual holiday party, I took a few minutes to check e-mail and stopped in to check on the calendar, noting that it hadn't been updated for a few days. I assumed technical difficulties and was devastated to learn worse.

Leslie was one of a pretty small group of people who shaped the early personal web, whose sites and words showed a lot of us what all the Hoopla could be about. I'm thinking about her family and her friends right now, the pain and loss they feel. I'll miss Leslie's voice on the web, and the life she brought to life.

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