Netsurfer Books Staff

Publisher

Arthur Bebak

Vice President and Publisher

Sun Ming Lieu

Editor, Netsurfer Books

Charlene Woodcock

Production Manager and Netmaster

Bill Woodcock

Staff Writers

Mitch Ahern

Gregory S. Brewsaugh

Erik Guttman

William Woodcock

Longer ago than he cares to remember Arthur was educated at the University of Illinois where he picked up a degree in Computer Engineering on a fencing scholarship (go figure). Fleeing Illinois topography for more vertically challenging terrain, he wound up in California designing mainframes and doing critical project management for Amdahl Corporation. He studied business administration at Golden Gate University and has worked with large Internet companies, such as Netscape, Doubleclick, SCO, ShopEaze and others. Today he helms Netsurfer Communications and uses his considerable and hard won experience to consult on matters of cyberspace. Arthur is the co-author of Creating Web Pages for Dummies, part of a popular series of technical guide books for beginners. In his voluminous spare time Arthur hallucinates in Perl.

Sun Ming Lieu - Vice President and Publisher

Sun Ming drifts through life catching fun and interesting projects. These include, in no particular order, being Chief Cat Herder at Cygnus Solutions, the first and largest Open Source Software company, capacity planning for Charles Schwab's web trading servers, a Ph.D. in Theoretic Plant (the little green ones) Morphology, judging the Global Information Infrastructure Awards, daytrading through the meltdown of summer 98, and remodeling fixer-upper houses, companies, and friends. Currently her eclectic outlook is behind the erratically-published Netsurfer Focus.

Bill Woodcock - Production Manager and Netmaster

Bill Woodcock is a TCP/IP and AppleTalk networking consultant in Berkeley, California. He's the one who maintains the hosts that bring Netsurfer publications to you. Being an engineer by trade and an artist by education, Bill likes to think of himself as a dabbler in each, by turns. He's the author of McGraw-Hill's Networking the Macintosh, and writes regularly for Network World and Connections, and occasionally for MacWorld and MacWEEK. He sits on the board of the Apple Network Managers Association, and sits on standards bodies of the AppleTalk Networking Forum.

Charlene Woodcock - Editor, Netsurfer Books

After fifteen years as paperback acquisitions editor at University of California Press, Charlene Mayne Woodcock is pleased to be on the other end of the publishing process as NSD book review editor, still reading widely but with more time to go to the movies, play recorder, sing early music with WAVE (Women's Antique Vocal Ensemble), and see the rest of the world. Her most gratifying accomplishment at UC Press was creation of the California Fiction series, which received a publishing award from the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association. A proponent of energy efficiency, she gets around Berkeley very satisfactorily by bike.

Mitchel Ahern - Writer

Mitchel Ahern lives and occasionally works on the North Shore of Boston Massachusetts. He keeps himself busy, but its hard to see a pattern. With an undergraduate degree in Philosophy he went into marketing and ran his own agencies. He went online and never left and has worked as SYSOP, Webmaster, Web Project Manager and helped found the WebMaster's Guild and the Association for Internet Professionals. As a writer/editor he's been reviewing tech/media book proposals for Addison Wesley Longman and working on his novel. A musician, he performs on his self-invented instrument (The Lid) with the Invented Thing Quartet and the Voigt-Zinman Hanging Hotel Rooftop Garden Orchestra. Mitchel's a dabbler of a sound sculptor, print maker, voice-over talent, and DJ. He's a board member for RAW Arts, and has been on the board and worked with many non-profit community arts and media organizations. Mitchel has been terraforming the backyard, studying for the Massachusetts History/Social Studies teacher certification, and teaching the children Dungeons and Dragons, Empire Builder and Draw Poker

Gregory S. Brewsaugh - Writer

Greg came of age in the suburbs of southern California and literally traded slide rule for calculator to seek his Electrical Engineering degree. He found that working hard could be fun, as long as you like what you're doing. That has been his goal ever since. After 15 years developing and documenting communication systems and handheld computers (before they were chic) Greg decided it was payback time. He re-entered college life and earned three teaching credentials. "My teachers ignited a spark in me and I want to pass it on." He is currently teaching high school Physics in Huntington Beach, CA. Technology has always been a big part of his life. Greg built his first computer in the days when it meant picking up a soldering iron, and he has been wedded to them since. When he's not shaping young minds, he serves on a technology consultative team for Goldenwest College and is a member of the Policy Advisory Board for DigitalConsumer.org, a digital media fair-use rights advocacy group.

Erik Guttman - Writer

Erik Guttman lives in Waibstadt, Germany and telecommutes to his native San Francisco bay area. He works at Sun Microsystems as a software engineer and contributor to the Internet Engineering Task Force. He shares an abiding love of books with his family. Erik also enjoys strategy games, correspondence, studying, good food, biking and hiking, music and movies and lots of other things he rarely has time for.

William Woodcock - Writer

In school, William E. Woodcock studied philosophy, art, and law. He has worked as an auto mechanic and cook, and for thirty-five years as an acquisitions editor of academic and professional books for scholarly publishers: five years for the Macmillan Co., twenty for Academic Press, Inc., five for Princeton University Press, and finally as a consultant to the University of California Press. He claims to have sponsored 1,104 books into print, mostly in the biological sciences, but also substantial numbers in anthropology, archaeology, linguistics and history. He is now a self-unemployed slacker living in Berkeley, CA. He reads a lot.