About the Authors

Kevin Hemenway, coauthor of Mac OS X Hacks (O'Reilly), is better known as Morbus Iff, the creator of disobey .com, which bills itself as "content for the discontented." Publisher and developer of more home cooking than you could ever imagine (like the popular open source aggregator AmphetaDesk, the best-kept gaming secret Gamegrene.com, the popular Ghost Sites and Nonsense Network, giggle-inducing articles at the O'Reilly Network, etc.), he has a fondness for expensive bags of beef jerky. Living in Concord, New Hampshire, he can be reached at [e-mail].

Tara Calishain is the editor of the online newsletter ResearchBuzz (http://www.researchbuzz.com) and author or coauthor of several books, including the O'Reilly best seller Google Hacks . A search engine enthusiast for many years , she began her foray into the world of Perl when Google released its API in April 2002.