http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/gibbs.html Your complete Mark Gibbs feed - columns, newsletters, the whole shebang. Network World, Inc. Copyright(C) 1994 - 2008 Network World, Inc. http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2008/101008backspin.html Ignorance of the law doesn't work with speeding tickets and it doesn't work with technology. Both can cost you. Mark Gibbs 2008-10-10T00:00:00Z http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2008/100808-gearhead.html Verbatim has a neat idea: Backup software embedded into recordable DVDs. Gibbs likes the concept but thinks it could do with a little polishing. Oh, and he revisits his old DPC problem. Yet again. Mark Gibbs 2008-10-08T00:00:00Z http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/web/2008/100608web2.html Just when you might have foolishly thought that the world of online searching couldn't produce yet another enhancement along comes Surf Canyon. Need I mention that that this software is in [drum roll please], beta?<p><A href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.nwf.rss/general;sz=468x60;ord=2474?"> <IMG src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.nwf.rss/general;sz=468x60;ord=2474?" border="0" width="468" height="60"></A> </p> Mark Gibbs 2008-10-08T00:00:00Z http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/web/2008/100608web1.html The idea that most people are on e-mail and that they actually read their e-mail and, given those predicates, are organized enough to schedule something based on a message is still, sadly, fiction. Mark Gibbs 2008-10-06T00:00:00Z http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2008/100308-backspin.html Gibbs discusses reader feedback to last week's column about the break-in of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's e-mail account and the heady intersection of IT and politics. Mark Gibbs 2008-10-03T00:00:00Z http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2008/100108-gearhead.html Gibbs looks at the Kodak Zi6, a direct competitor to the Flip Mino video camera he reviewed a few weeks ago, and discusses improving Windows audio. Mark Gibbs 2008-10-01T00:00:00Z http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/web/2008/092908web2.html Very often when you're testing Web content you'll want to test what a page looks like and how it works under multiple browsers. If you, like me, prefer Firefox, then launching and switching to Internet Explorer is a total pain. Mark Gibbs 2008-10-01T00:00:00Z http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/web/2008/092908web1.html I am not a happy traveler. I have friends who treat travel as a great adventure and love every minute of their experiences, but not I. For me travel is a means to an end, something to be endured. There was a time - back in the 1980's - when travel was still reasonably civilized but now we have to tolerate endless queues, get crappy in-flight service (certain airlines now plan to even charge for pillows!), and if we're really lucky, have the TSA treat us like criminals, confiscate our laptops on a whim, and demand that we surrender our shampoo.<p><A href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.nwf.rss/general;sz=468x60;ord=10685?"> <IMG src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.nwf.rss/general;sz=468x60;ord=10685?" border="0" width="468" height="60"></A> </p> Mark Gibbs 2008-09-29T00:00:00Z http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2008/092508backspin.html Experts aren't infallible. Whether they are mushroom collectors, e-mail providers, political candidates or IT professionals, they can get things wrong. If we're talking mushrooms, the results can be fatal. Mark Gibbs 2008-09-25T00:00:00Z http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2008/092508gearhead.html Following last week's discussion of Google's Chrome browser Gibbs discusses what makes Chrome special and then discusses a user's observation that Firefox 3 is up to something...but what? Mark Gibbs 2008-09-25T00:00:00Z