I have exchanged a PM or two with him. He's still around...still has his SVX...his advice is greatly missed by me as well. I have never met anyone like Beav who could perform an unerring diagnostic just from the misc ramblings many of us post (OK, that I post anyway).
I got the idea that he has a real life now in contrast to guys like me who spend too much time on the computer (according to my wife anyway)