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-<div class="paragraph"><p>Dedicated to my wife, Joanna, who has, for many years now, supported
-all my wacky ideas and nutty projects with only the occasional grumble
-and roll of the eyes.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Dedicated to my wife Joanna who has kindly supported my working on various projects over the years.</p></div>
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-<div class="paragraph"><p>To all the great people from the various places I&#8217;ve worked over the
-years, thank you. I&#8217;ve benefitted from your patience and insight and I
-hope that some of what I&#8217;ve learned from you has been incorporated
-into Megatest.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Also, my thanks to all the wonderful open source creators. These
-truly free projects, from Linux, xemacs, chicken scheme, and fossil to
-asciidoc and bash are the philosophical and direct underpinnings of
-the Megatest project.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Thank you the many people I&#8217;ve worked over the years who have
+shared their knowledge and insights with me.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Thanks also to the creators of the various open source projects that
+Megatest is built on. These include Linux, xemacs, chicken scheme,
+fossil and asciidoc. Without these projects something like Megatest
+would be difficult or impossible to do.</p></div>
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-Last updated 2012-05-03 07:53:32 MST
+Last updated 2013-03-25 09:17:02 MST
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 [dedication]
 Dedication
 ==========
 
-Dedicated to my wife, Joanna, who has, for many years now, supported
-all my wacky ideas and nutty projects with only the occasional grumble
-and roll of the eyes.
+Dedicated to my wife Joanna who has kindly supported my working on various projects over the years.
 
 Thanks
 ------
 
-To all the great people from the various places I've worked over the
-years, thank you. I've benefitted from your patience and insight and I
-hope that some of what I've learned from you has been incorporated
-into Megatest.
-
-Also, my thanks to all the wonderful open source creators. These
-truly free projects, from Linux, xemacs, chicken scheme, and fossil to
-asciidoc and bash are the philosophical and direct underpinnings of
-the Megatest project.
+Thank you the many people I've worked over the years who have 
+shared their knowledge and insights with me.
+
+Thanks also to the creators of the various open source projects that
+Megatest is built on. These include Linux, xemacs, chicken scheme,
+fossil and asciidoc. Without these projects something like Megatest 
+would be difficult or impossible to do.
 
 [preface]
 Preface
 =======
 This book is organised as three sub-books; getting started, writing tests and reference.