Email received from O'Reilly (via a colleague) reports that wireless network advocate and writer Rob Flickenger took a spill from two stories up while installing some 802.11b equipment. He was immediately taken to a hospital and operated on for internal injuries, but is now in stable condition and is expected to be released in a week.
Rob is a noted 802.11b (white-hat) hacker, building and testing interesting equipment and ideas, and one of the popularizers of free community networking. He recently wrote a book on that topic published by O'Reilly & Associates. Rob is a system and network admin for O'Reilly.
Schuyler Erle from O'Reilly sent out a note on how Rob was doing, and added this advice: First, *please* be careful when doing this sort of field work. Our community almost lost a brilliant contributor and advocate (and a great friend, to boot), due to a simple accident. I really don't want to see this happen to anyone else. I'll say it again: Please be careful when setting up antennas, et cetera. No amount of bandwidth is worth your physical harm, so don't you be a martyr to the cause! :-)
Second, if you'd like to send cards or whatever, I'm sure Rob would be grateful to hear from a community he's given so much to. He can be reached c/o O'Reilly & Associates, 1005 Gravenstein Hwy N, Sebastopol, CA 95472. Feel free to be creative, but please don't send antennas -- we don't want to encourage him any further. ;-)
I'd expect a Pringles can full of tangerines might be the appropriate get-well gift.