Mark Gibbs

"An unexpected error has occurred." -- An unexpected message unexpectedly produced by Microsoft Word. The error message I quote above fascinates me in a strange and unwholesome way because it raises all sorts of questions.

One of the most common problems with Web browsing is keeping track of what you look at. And when you actually are researching something on the Web, keeping your results organized is really hard.

Ever heard of the Irish Potato Famine?

When does a product or service become so important to our culture that it becomes what you could call "cultural infrastructure"? By that I...

"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong." -- H.L. Mencken That...

Scumware is the generic term for various kinds of software that hides on your PC and displays ads and/or reports on your online behaviour....

In what has to be the most intriguing examples of jurisprudence this year, British courts have now ruled three times that computer owners being prosecuted for various computer crimes were not guilty because they were dead at the time: that is to say, they didn't do it, Trojan horse code did.

Why is it that so many commentators, pundits and analysts want to try to peg downrn trends based on the flimsiest shreds of evidence?