John C. Dvorak, was the host of Cranky Geeks. His crankiness knows no bounds, is a contributing editor of PC Magazine, for which he has been writing two columns, including the popular Inside Track, since 1986.

The consistently irritated Dvorak has won eight national awards from the Computer Press Association, including Best Columnist and Best Column.

Dvorak is also a weekly columnist for Dow-Jones Marketwatch, Info! (Brazil) and BUG Magazine (Croatia). He was previously a columnist for Forbes, Forbes Digital, PC World, MacUser, PC/Computing, Barrons, Smart Business and other magazines and newspapers and is a former editor and consulting editor for Infoworld. Dvorak's writing has also appeared in the New York Times, LA Times, SF Examiner, Vancouver Sun. He was on the start-up team for CNet TV and for ZDTV. At ZDTV (and TechTV), Dvorak was host of the show Silicon Spin for four years and did 1,000 live and live-to-tape TV shows. He was on public radio for 8 years and wrote over 4,000 articles and columns, and authored or co-authored 14 books.

Dvorak is the 2004 Award winner of the American Business Editors Association's national gold award for best online column of 2003. That was followed up by an unprecedented second national gold award from the ABEA in 2005, again for the best online column (for 2004).

Be sure to check out John's personal blog Dvorak Uncensored.