Thanks to:

My editor Jim Akin for his expert touch and elimination of such sins as passive no-nos.

My technical editor Dominique Werner.

Scott Sheppard of Inside Mac Press for starting the whole deal, and Peachpit for seeing it through.

Janet Forbes for being Janet Forbes, and for allowing me to use text from her Diary Extracts, published on http://jan.1dot1.com.

Glen Carpenter, for being a Unix command-line guinea pig.

iTunes in association with The Cooper Temple Clause, Muse, Rush, The White Stripes, The Zutons, and many others.

My iMac G5 and its 20” LCD screen, which makes writing and proofing so much easier.

Beer.

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