RIP Craig Harding

[Inspector]

Today is a sad day in the history of the New Zealand gaming community with the passing of Craig "Horse" Harding.


I realise most of you won't know Craig, but he is in fact one of the founding members of online gaming, especially in the InSPire Net sponsored community. In 1998-99 Craig along with Riven & I and others from around Palmerston North formed a clan called the [FBI] - Clan (Fat Bastards Inc) and Craig built & admin'ed the first Quake/Team Fortress server that was hosted at InSPire and from this group those of us interested in motor racing (Bazz, Happy, Riven and a few others) branched out and started online racing from InSPire based servers and eventually KSR was formed and here we are today.

Craig passed away today after a long battle with cancer and he would have turned 42 this coming Monday, the 4th July. Friends and family were very fortunate to attend his and his partners (Tina) combined early birthday party last weekend and it was great too look back over our years of friendship both socially and in the serious business of gaming and to ultimately say a last goodbye. Craig has a brother Bruce "Ute Boy" Harding who also was part of the original Clan and he also works at InSPire with Riven and he has worked in the background to help our communities game servers stay up and running and has recieved many calls at night from me when the servers crashed and I couldn't get hold of Riven.

Our thoughts are with Bruce & Tina and their family and friends, and even though they won't read this I believe it is fitting to pay tribute to a great man and a great friend who deserved much more than this short life.

Rest in Peace Craig.

[2LO]

RIP Craig.

[Blenderer]

Very sad news indeed, RIP Craig and best wishes to Craigs family.

[Jetboy]

Heard news from Stone today, thoughts are with the family and those he knew

[Corrin24g]

RIP Craig

[Pitbull]

Rest In Peace Craig