For more than 25 years, Mark Gibbs has done just about everything in the networking business short of hacking into NORAD. He worked as an executive in various companies, has created companies, and has consulted on product and service development for many businesses. As an author he has written four books and numerous articles about networking and computer technology. Gibbs has been a regular contributor to Network World since 1995 and pens (well, keyboards) the weekly Backspin and Gearhead columns as well as the twice-weekly Web Applications Newsletter. He also writes a blog called, with amazing creativity, Gibbsblog. For more detail on the man behind the myth please see here.
Last week I began documenting the pandemic of craziness that is sweeping the globe. This week, our attention turns to the United States where the net neutrality furor continues unabated with a huge outbreak of craziness being added to the mix.
Gibbs suggests a way to tell people they should have tried using Google, finds a workaround to Yahoo Pipes caching, and fails to fix his Mac disk drive despite using a very good utility.
I'm talking about video freezes ¿ you know what it's like: You're watching the latest cute kitten video on YouTube and the playback pauses for a moment then resumes. Bad enough it does this at all but nope, it does this often, in fact, every few seconds.
Gibbs has spotted a new pandemic sweeping the globe and there's no swine or birds involved; this one is an outbreak of craziness and the Japanese airline ANA appears to have had a bad case of it ¿
Look, I hate to bring this up, but there's something we need to discuss: Why haven't I heard from you recently? (No, not you, you've been in touch. It's this guy over here ¿ ) Really, is it too much to ask that you put pen to paper ¿ oh, all right, fingers to keyboard ¿ and tell me what's on your mind?
There are two tasks in business that are really tedious: Tracking your receipts for expenses and capturing business card data.
There are two tasks in business that are really tedious: Tracking your receipts for expenses and capturing business card data.
Mark Gibbs discusses the how augmented reality works and chastises the U.S. Postal Service and General Electric for playing fast and loose with terminology.
Gibbs is astounded by Microsoft's campaign to get people to hold Windows 7 launch parties globally ¿ a ploy that seems to have worked ridiculously well assuming that it's real ¿ he also wonders about our collective sanity and coolness quotient.
Building a Web site is, for many people, a task that lies somewhere beyond daunting.
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