The computer world has lost a true guru. Norman De Forest was found
dead at his Halifax, Nova Scotia apartment on February 1st. It is
unofficially estimated that he died January 26th. Cause of death is
unknown at this time, but Norman was a heavy smoker and would have been
64 this month.
Although eccentric in nature, Norman was a very smart person and well
versed in computers. He was with Chebucto Community Net in Halifax for
over a decade and freely volunteered his time with no thought of
compensation. He was a member of the HTML Writers' Guild and championed
web authoring that was text & handicapped friendly.
He shall be sadly missed.
For a time, Norman's website will remain accessible. It gives more
about his life and has some great protests against poor webpage
authoring, among many other topics.
http://www.chebucto.ca/~af380/
Richard Bonner
http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/
