Jan-Piet Mens

I'm wrapping up the work on my book. The last uncounted weekends have been madness here chez Mens with me ensconced in my office, surrounded by humming noises while I built software, tested database back-ends, set up crazy delegations, ran performance benchmarks for DNS servers, and validated DNSSEC keys. I've been working until all hours of the weekend mornings, adding this, changing that, reorganizing those sections, adding a chapter here and fixing up that sample code. Slowly, ever so surely, the project is nearing the end.

Hah!

When I say the end, I mean my end, of course. As soon as the publisher gets his paws on my work, he'll probably turn it and squeeze it, and he might even make me cry. However, I'm also looking forward to that part.

Several chapters have already been reviewed by the program authors, and I'm pleased with their (sometimes very positive) feedback. I went the whole hog tonight, and sent M. (no: I won't say who that is) an encrypted copy of the whole manuscript. All 650 pages of it.

And who is my greatest fan in this project? Alexandra. She is constantly supervising the page count, and she was most disappointed tonight, when I scrapped a whole chapter.