Credits

Thank you to the many people who made this book possible.

The navigation icons and assorted small illustrative graphics come from Anthony's Icon Library, compiled and made freely available by Anthony Thyssen.

The road sign icons in Chapter 12 are from the Manual of Traffic Signs, by Richard C. Moeur, and used with his kind permission.

Certain of the sidebar title graphics, such as in The Knack, were created by the author of HMW.

The Beware of Snakes photo in Chapter 12 resulted from a snapshot taken by the author's wife.

The author takes the blame for the cartoon in the F.A.Q.


Certain of the graphics were created and/or manipulated using the powerful Open Source Gimp image program. Note that all icons and graphics are in the jpeg nonproprietary format, due to licensing restrictions on gif files.

The author compiled quotes from a wide variety of sources, among them the UNIX "Fortune" program and selections from classical works and diverse readings (the "fair use" doctrine applies). Surprisingly enough, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations proved to be a poor resource, and is hardly represented.


I, the author, wish to thank all the people who encouraged me in my efforts and made helpful suggestions, most notably my loving wife.

Applause and appreciation to every reader of HMW. Your contributions and suggestions have helped make it what it is. Your faith in me and my book, your hope that life can become more meaningful, your expression of your loneliness, your hurts, your needs, of your essential humanity . . . I feel deeply moved.

Last, but certainly not least, I would express my gratitude to the all the people who created and developed the free, Open Source Linux operating system, for providing a rock-solid working environment and the tools to make a project of this magnitude feasible.


We work in the dark
We do what we can
We give what we have
Our doubt is our passion,
and our passion is our task
The rest is the madness of art.

Henry James



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