Hamish Sanderson is an experienced United Kingdom-based AppleScripter who first discovered the joys of desktop automation while working as a book illustrator late last century. Since then he has contributed a range of useful libraries and utilities to the AppleScript community and pops up with some regularity on the various AppleScript mailing lists. He is also the author of the highly regarded appscript library, which brings AppleScript-like application scripting support to the popular Python language on OS X.