Philippe "BooK" Bruhat, author of HTTP::Proxy and Net::Proxy, lives in Lyon (France) with his wife and cat and is an active member of the French and European Perl communities. He worked on the translations of "Programming Perl, 3rd ed" and "Perl Best Practices" for O'Reilly France, and publishes Perl articles in "GNU/Linux Magazine France." As the co-developer of Act (A Conference Toolkit) and a member of the YAPC Europe Foundation, he helps organise European Perl workshops and conferences, at which he is also a regular speaker. He would love it if you tried his Acme::MetaSyntactic module (updated weekly).