Roland Piquepaille

Roland Piquepaille (18 October 1946 – 6 January 2009) was a technology writer, both for ZDNet and for his own blog, "Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends", and a former software engineer at Silicon Graphics and Cray Research. He was a frequent contributor to "Slashdot" and well-known for his focus on how new technologies modify life.
He died in Paris, France, on 6 January 2009, of complications related to an enterococcal bacteria infection.