Jennifer Buckendorff is a freelance writer and editor living in Seattle, Washington. Having graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a degree in Women's Studies, she set her sights on the West Coast. Most recently, she worked at Amazon.com for five years as an editor of the computer and Internet books page and as a Web developer for Amazon's international sites. Currently, she's studying various multimedia applications, which (after years of only XEmacs) are really quite pretty. She can be reached at jenb@oreilly.com.