Mac writer Tony Tyler dies.
Reporter, organist, publicist, former NME editor (he hired Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons), novelist (The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, The Complete Tolkien Companion) and frequent writer for Macworld and MacUser. He died on the 28th, eleven days after being told he had fatal cancer. "Shit happens, but I'm completely cool with this." was his view at the time.
I quite enjoyed his shutdown column on the last page of MacUser. As a Mac person since the early days he was one to view Apple's business from a wider pespective, when others concentrated on the present and near future. The thing that annoyed him in his final days, was that he wouldn't be able to see his godson, Daniel Craig as the latest James Bond.
Read his last Shutdown column here.
A great loss.
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