Another great one gone.

[mdlbear]

The sky has been overcast -- a uniform pearly-grey -- all day. Smoke from two nearby wildfires, presumably. And some more music has gone out of the world.

Here are Reuters and CNN on Luciano Pavarotti's passing, at the tragically young age of 71, of pancreatic cancer. Same thing that got my Dad. And here is Pam Jones of Groklaw, with one of the most heartfelt tributes I've seen, made a little more poignant by her realization that a high-profile blogger writing about copyright law probably shouldn't risk linking to pirated video clips on YouTube. Just search there and you'll find 'em -- I'm not a high-profile blogger writing about copyright law.

At the moment, I'm just an amateur musician lamenting the passing of one of the great ones.