Extra special thankyou to:

Dad, for all his planning, editing, support (including financial), acceptance, and love; Mum, for all her support, editing, massages, hugs, meals, chats, and sympathy; Simon, for making me laugh when I needed to, being with me, leaving me alone, kicking the soccer ball and being my companion; BruceRussel, for his understanding, lively character, time, energy, wonderful humour, flexibility, and playback theatre; Shane Elliott, for giving up his personal time and weekends, his guidance, explanations, friendship, and cold pizza.

Thankyou to:

Mal Secourable, for cups of coffee, moral support, willingness to listen, pep talks, and playing cricket with me when I was ready to ‘hang up the boots’; Mark Molloy, for his guidance, assistance, teaching my high school education, and most of all, his camps; The Class, who I have known and lived with for over twelve years; Jesse Williamson, for his help and enthusiasm with the programming; Mohammad Imtiaz, for generously donating his time to answer my chaos questions; DirkVan Helden, for offering assistance and further contacts; Myles Fletcher, for his calming words of wisdom; Bob Cooper and the people on my course, for sharing the outback experience with me and for their friendship; David Lee, for his mathematical explanations and programming help; Ben Thornton, for charitably allowing me to use his scanner; Jake Tyler, for sharing the stresses of high school with a unique sense of humour and helping me enjoy my leisure time; Norman Cook alias Fatboy Slim, for helping me ‘let my head go’ and giving me lively rhythms to type to.