No, it's pretty obvious that they were close friends and coworkers, but not the same person.

I'm starting to sympathize with http://xkcd.com/386/ more and more. I wish I could just stop doing this already.

Umm, ok, let's recap, shall we?:

1) His sister. This ( http://www.advogato.org/person/whytheluckystiff/diary/14.htm... ) says she was 14 in 2001. That makes her ~21 today. "Jonathan Gillette from Utah" has "Kristin Gillete" listed as a relative here: http://www.intelius.com/search-summary-out.php?ReportType=1&... . She's 21.

2) His wife. This page ( http://ftp.df.lth.se/pub/scene.org/music/groups/starving_but... ) says Jonathan is married to Kylie, or at least was in 2004. She makes jewelry, and has a site hosted by _why: http://74.125.93.132/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=c...

3) His band. See http://ftp.df.lth.se/pub/scene.org/music/groups/starving_but... again. He plays in a band called (both) "Starving but Happy" and "The Child Who Was A Keyhole". See http://www.myspace.com/thechildwhowasakeyhole . Compare picture of _why (http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottlaird/31366517/ ) to http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewIma... and http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewIma... -- the guitar is pretty easy to identify as the same.

4) The why@rysa.inetz.com thing.

5) This site (http://members.tripod.com/soccer_riot/ ) was made by _why (pre-why, as far as I can tell). If he is just close friends with Jonathan Gillette, it's apparently to the point that it didn't seem relevant to point out that he was producing the audio clips for the site. Open dolphins.ram in pretty much any media player and you'll see "Jonathan Gillette" as its author.

6) Why did jgillette make several very informed posts to ruby-talk, then completely quit developing ruby (apparently...)?