Mark Gibbs

Articles by Mark Gibbs

The physics of IT

What they want is a Theory of Everything, a theory that allows them to start from first principles and deduce (if I might quote Douglas Adams) the existence of rice pudding and income tax.

The Tao of IT: Lesson 1

A few months ago I visited One Wilshire, a 25-story building at Wilshire and Grand in downtown Los Angeles. One Wilshire is a carrier...

IT automation offers host of conundrums

IT automation is a hot topic. Actually, it has been a hot topic for a long time. Gibbs Irregular Dan Saint-Andre points out that...

Tagging: It’s no longer fun and easy

Most people think that tagging on the Web is pretty easy and fun

Crime and punishment and technology

What is the average sentence for kidnapping? Seventy-five years? Nope. Sixty years? No, if you forcibly abduct someone, on average, you

Bridging the Reality gap of the DRM market

See that photo of me over on the right? Guess what? I don

The how, why and where of future IT

What will your IT department look like in, say, five years? This is an important question, because we

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