I'm sure many of you are familiar with Steve Yegge and his (Drunken) Blog Rants. He's a languages guru, opinionated about a lot of topics I care about, and had been at blogging for a long time; often silly, also poignant. After quite some time at Amazon, he's been at Google for a few years. His supposedly final series of posts, "The Programmer's View of the Universe", has not seen any attention since the third entry on May 18 2009: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/05/programmers-view-of-universe-part-3.html

Not only that, but the most recent approved comment was half a year ago and I haven't seen any murmurs or hints of Steve's online presence since then. So I'm starting to wonder: Where is Steve Yegge?

Has he gone stealth and started blogging anonymously? Is he being silent while on a skunkwork a la Building 49? Did he decide to finish his series in the form of a book? I don't know. I figure someone who works at Google or knows him personally might read this and know what's up with him though.

If he's gone stealth: I appreciate his writing and insights and would like to keep seeing fresh work from him. I'm willing not to share his identity/presence to protect him from trolling. At the very least, it would be nice to know he's alive and well! Please share what you know.