Thought I'd ask the all-knowing empegBBS for tips and tricks...

If you want to find an old friend, how do you go about it?

For example, I'm looking for my old room-mate.
His resume` is still at the university, but that email is dead.
So is the email addy I have for him from 2006, our last contact.
He moved to Sydney, Australia in 2005, but an email address for him at that place of work also is a dead end.

I nearly cried when I found the birth announcement of a child in Spokane, WA just a week ago(!), but a quick phone call revealed the happy father to be a different person with the same name as my friend.

So, with google faltering and yielding only old links, where else should I look?

Many thanks in advance!