Reading the editor's letter in that issue, it rather sounds as though Web Techniques has left merlyn (and a number of other authors) by deciding to recast itself as a new and different magazine.

Sad, but not entirely unexpected. The web isn't as cool as it was a few years back, and some of the articles were getting repetitive.

I learned quite a bit from studying merlyn's early columns, and looked forward to finding a new one each month to study. We'll just have to get that fix elsewhere. Fortunately there is an elsewhere.