Simon Cozens is an Open Source programmer and author. He has released over a hundred Perl modules including Email: : Simple, Mail: : Audit, Maypole, Plucene, and B: : Generate. He's the co-author of Beginning Perl (Wrox) and Extending and Embedding Perl (Manning) and was the managing editor of Perl.com from 2001 to 2004. A graduate in Japanese from Oxford University, he now lives in Wales and enjoys Japanese and Greek food, bizarre music and fine typography.