{"id":2765,"date":"2017-01-18T12:10:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T03:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2017-01-18\/2765"},"modified":"2017-01-18T12:10:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T03:10:47","slug":"rest-in-peace-rob-cole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2017-01-18\/2765","title":{"rendered":"Rest in Peace, Rob Cole"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class='ic' itemscope itemtype='http:\/\/schema.org\/Photograph'><a name=\"i099773\" href='\/i\/JF4_099773.jpg' itemprop='image'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_099773_sm.jpg\" width=\"383\" height=\"575\"\nalt=\"A Pretty Picture a kusaridoi at the Eigenji Temple (\u6c38\u6e90\u5bfa), in Shiga Japan -- Eigenji Temple (\u6c38\u6e90\u5bfa) -- Higashiomi, Shiga, Japan -- Copyright 2016 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http:\/\/regex.info\/ when used online)\"\nid=\"i099773\"\ntitle=\"A Pretty Picture a kusaridoi at the Eigenji Temple (\u6c38\u6e90\u5bfa), in Shiga Japan -- Eigenji Temple (\u6c38\u6e90\u5bfa) -- Higashiomi, Shiga, Japan -- Copyright 2016 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http:\/\/regex.info\/ when used online)\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>400 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 3200 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_099773.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF4_099773.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'><span class='nobr'>A Pretty<\/span> Picture<\/span>\n<br\/>a <i>kusaridoi<\/i> at the Eigenji Temple <span class='nobr'>(\u6c38\u6e90\u5bfa),<\/span> in Shiga Japan\n<meta itemprop='url' content='http:\/\/regex.info\/i\/JF4_099773.jpg'\/>\n<meta itemprop='creator' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='copyrightHolder' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='dateCreated' content='2016-11-17'\/>\n<meta itemprop='about' content=\"A Pretty Picture a kusaridoi at the Eigenji Temple (\u6c38\u6e90\u5bfa), in Shiga Japan -- Eigenji Temple (\u6c38\u6e90\u5bfa) -- Higashiomi, Shiga, Japan -- Copyright 2016 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http:\/\/regex.info\/ when used online)\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p>Rob Cole used to be one of the more prolific engineers creating plugins for Adobe Lightroom, until two years ago when he seemed\nto have fallen off the face of the Internet. <span class='nobr'>His web site<\/span> vanished, taking with it his valuable trove of\nsolutions for photographers, and at the same time, his active participation in online forums stopped.<\/p>\n\n<p>For the past two years no one in this facet of his life knew what had happened, but I've finally learned today that Rob passed\naway unexpectedly in January 2015.<\/p>\n\n<p>This situation brings to mind <span class='QO'>&#8220;<\/span><a class='pt' href='\/blog\/2010-01-27\/1438'>On the\nPermanence of One\u2019s Online (and Offline) Presence<\/a><span class='QC'>&#8221;<\/span> from seven years ago, but in this case the\nonline presence disappeared at the same time he did. Judging by the various messages from his users that I've received since Rob\ndisappeared, <span class='nobr'>I know his<\/span> work had helped <span class='nobr'>a lot<\/span> of people. <span\nclass='nobr'>For what it<\/span>'s worth, I've reached out to his family to see whether they'd like to find <span class='nobr'>a\nway<\/span> to make it available again, if they even have access to it.<\/p>\n\n<p>Anyway, since his disappearance was so unsettling, <span class='nobr'>I'm posting<\/span> this to provide some closure to those that knew him\nonline. Rest in peace, Rob, and condolences to your family.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Cole used to be one of the more prolific engineers creating plugins for Adobe Lightroom, until two years ago when he seemed to have fallen off the face of the Internet. His web site vanished, taking with it his valuable trove of solutions for photographers, and at the same time, his active participation in online forums stopped.<\/p> <p>For the past two years no one in this facet of his life knew what had happened, but I've finally learned today that Rob passed away unexpectedly in January 2015.<\/p> <p>This situation brings to mind \"On the Permanence of One\u2019s Online (and [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}