I hate to answer my own question but it appears the author died in 2011: https://www.woot.com/blog/post/pouring-the-digital-forty-rip-ryland-sanders https://ww

I hate to answer my own question but it appears the author died in 2011: https://www.woot.com/blog/post/pouring-the-digital-forty-rip-ryland-sanders https://www.woot.com/blog/post/pouring-the-digital-forty-rip... http://metatalk.metafilter.com/20519/Ryland-Sanders-has-passed-away http://metatalk.metafilter.com/20519/Ryland-Sanders-has-pass... Leaving only elderly parents and an adult brother and sister behind. So it appears that the site is lost to history.