Tim,

I didn't want to take away from your nice blog with the Dickens reference. I refer to the sentence "Similarly, Windows and Mac users confronting a Unix-based operating system for the first time--while not reacting quite so dramatically as Little Dorrit--may find the experience disconcerting." Though beautifully put, this is, of course, severely flawed. Mac OS X is UNIX.

Admitedly, there are two kinds of Mac Users

(1) Those that don't know they're using a UNIX box. They would be as surprised by reading your Mac for Unix/Unix for Mac books as they would by the Linux title that is the subject of the PR release.

(2) Those that do know they're using a UNIX box. For lack of a literary reference, for them the experience is like the Casablanca scene where Louis (sp?) is expressing his shock that Rick is running a gambling joint while pocketing his share of the take.

On the other hand -- it is nice to see a technology publishing company where the PR team knows enough to make such a literary reference and the publisher knows enough to recognize it.

Best,

Daniel