Jim Gray Missing!

Noted Microsoft Researcher Jim Gray is missing - he was solo sailing his 40-ft boat Tenacious from San Francisco to the Farallon Islands. The Farallons are a small set of islands about 30 miles due west of San Francisco which have a lot of sea lions and seals and (consequently) a large Great White Shark feeding area. At this point it looks like he just hasn't been able to check in so hopefully he just has a broken radio. The coast guard is currently looking for his boat and I'm optimistic he will be found ok.

Amongst his numerous other accomplishments, Jim (literally) wrote the book on transactional processing. [Via Werner Vogels]