Yesterday I mailed an old friend (who sold me lots of Sun equipment when I worked in my previous job around 10-15 years ago). My mail client's address book is so old, it picked up the company's old domain name, and the email bounced back. Nothing unusual there!

As usual, for me, I only glanced at the Undeliverable mail and thought it was reporting that my friend no longer worked at the reseller; it was actually just telling me that the domain name was non existent. As it happens it wasn't relevant -- the end result was the same.

So being the inquisitive sort, I typed his name into my search engine of choice only to find this:

link to a justgiving.com webpage set up, in his memory:-( Mail servers aren't supposed to delivery this sort of message!!

Although we'd not spoken for sometime (he'd last been in touch when he'd sponsored me earlier this year) he was one of those low maintenance friends who always remembered more details about your life than you ever did his! So at the very least all I can do is remember him, and suggest that you don't lose touch with good friends!

RIP dppf.

PS: The chosen charity, CLICL Sargent is one dppf was keen to support, they are the UK's leading children's cancer charity, supporting children, young people and their families through cancer every step of the way. December is childhood cancer awareness month.