When I first started blogging, it was largely about Apple technology. The first freelance writing that I ever was paid for was writing Apple Hacks for O’Reilly Press. Then it was writing columns for Apple Matters. Then it was blogging for The Unofficial Apple Weblog. I made a lot of friends through that writing. Fellow O’Reilly contributors, fellow bloggers, fellow Weblogs, Inc bloggers.
All of that wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for Steve Jobs.
He replied to a few of my emails. Once he happened to walk into the men’s restroom at All Things D conference when I was walking out. I never really met him. But this stranger has affected my life quite strongly. 56 is far too young for that force of life that touched so many to be gone.
My thoughts and prayers are with his family and those who knew him and worked with him.
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