2 loss to community

1. Just heard an exciting news that a friend of mine will join the local MS office next month, I'm happy that he share this piece of news with me last Friday, I know his new job must be challenging and I'm sure we still can work together closely for the local user group and community stuffs. OTOH, due to the independence of user groups / communities, he'll resign from the executive board because he'll become a MSFTer... Anyway, good luck for his new job, but a loss to the user groups / communities.

2. Just heard the shocking news from an ASPInsider mailing list - Jim Ross has passed away last week. Jim was a really really great guy and contributed a lots to the ASP.NET community. I know Jim for several years (Yes, we know each other virtually over the ASP.NET Forum) and meet him in person during the Global MVP Summit 2003.

He'll be sadly missed...