My thanks go out to Nathan Torkington, Rael Dornfest, and Chuck Toporek for helping me shape and launch this project, and to Ernie Rothman for joining in to make the book a reality. Also, thanks to Leon Towns-von Stauber for contributing Appendix B to this book.
I'd especially like to thank my wife, Joan, and my stepsons, Seiji and Yeuhi, for their support and encouragement through my late night and weekend writing sessions, my zealous rants about the virtues of Mac OS X, and the slow but steady conversion of our household computers to Macintoshes.
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