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. Piquepaille was also 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.