Additional thanks go to Allen Wyatt (the technical reviewer) for making sure that everything in this book is accurate, and to Cassandra (my wife) for putting up with multiple computers that (from her point of view) seem to spontaneously appear and disappear from the house at random. Each time a computer disappears, a more advanced model appears that promises more speed and hard disk space but still never seems to have more speed or as much room as the previous computer model that it replaced.
A final note of thanks must go to the Chinese and Russians who've translated my other books, Microsoft Office For Dummies and Visual Basic For Dummies. The Chinese and Russian editions are the only foreign translations of my books ever to include my previously published references to General Dynamics as a "bomb factory." Whether translators in other countries purposely omitted this humorous reference or whether it's just a coincidence that only the Chinese and Russian editions included this reference is unknown.
Still, this fact alone provides an endless source of amusement to think that Chinese and Russian readers are privy to an American joking about his country's nuclear missile factories, while readers in other countries are not. For that reason alone, the Chinese and Russian translators of my books have my eternal gratitude and blessing, not because they happen to be Chinese or Russian, but because they appear to be able to appreciate a joke.
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