http://pub13.ezboard.com/ucraigjr.showPublicProfile?language=EN

And an old profile he had on developerfusion:

http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/profile/3451/

But I can’t find anything after 2003. The last thing from him that I can find on the internet comes from my 2003 news page (I believe it’s the judging of the VB contest). His domain, csjsoftware.com, which he used for email, expired in Oct 2004. If anyone wants to do some searching and finds something, let me know. I’m sure he’d love to hear from someone from the old forum, if he’s still around. Not to come off as mellow dramatic, but I wish I’d saved that email he sent me, oh well.

As for the contest, according to archive.org, it looks like there were 7 entries total, from 6 different people. I think if I’d had the contest a year earlier it would have gotten a lot more entries. Back in the day I had a lot of people emailing me saying I should throw a contest. I actually expected to get around 20 entries, I was a little disappointed the turn out wasn’t higher, but it was kind of a fun thing to put together.

Brian (local)

As for the medical issues – that was Craig. He emailed me a few times telling me he had a serious condition. I don’t remember the blind part (though that may have been part of it), but he had lung issues. He once sent me an email saying that if he suddenly stopped visiting the forum, it was because he was really sick or because he had died. He didn’t want me thinking he’d just abandoned the site. I actually kind of worried about him for a while, but a couple of months after the email he was still posting regularly so I assumed everything was fine.

At that point I don’t think I had talked about what he told me. It wasn’t until after he had been gone a while that I said something. He never suddenly disappeared though. The forum started to die/slow down, and most people stopped posting. So there’s a good chance he’s still around and just hasn’t stopped by.

It appears the last time I talked about him in the news section of this site was when he helped judge the 2003 programming contest. And according to this old forum post he got a job in California (even if he was gone for 2 weeks he was missed):

link

But that was still a year or so before he disappeared. Since he was such a popular contributor I’d assume he’d check back every once in a while, but there are sites I frequented and then have never gone back to. I’d hope he’s ok and doing his thing in the programming world. He’s definitely one of the nicest and most talented programmers I’ve met.

I was just looking at the old VB Programming Contest results on archive.org and wondering what happened to CraigJr?

I *vaguely* remember someone posting on your phpBB about having serious lung problems and even going blind for a while. Was that him, or am I thinking of someone else entirely?