Mark

Author of “Girls Tell All.com”, wrote this book which appears on Amazon. The book is based on my web site GirlsTellAll.com. The book is quite sexual but also funny and informative. The book took over a year to write and I spent about six months with two women editors to work out the finer details. The book has had a great review by collegeclub.com and I appeared on the radio show “Don And Mike” which was syndicated in 37 cities…. Wild !!!I was born in Camp Lejeune North Carolina… yes father was a Marine… and then moved to Michigan when my father was stationed in Korea. After that we moved to Maryland and stayed here ever since.I attended Friendly Senior high… which at the time was a fairly advanced school. Our misfortune enough to take classes like physiology, medical science and advanced biology. My main interest was to become a veterinarian. During my second year I was part-time working at an animal hospital.We were one of the first schools to have a computer…. or more correctly a screen connected to the University of Maryland's mainframe. The crazy thing is no one was really allowed to use this unknown piece of electronics. So I used to skip classes and go down to the guidance room where the terminal was and take tutor program on the system. Eventually I learned to program in basic. Now I am sure in those days computer time was about $100 an hour so I was probably burning through money like a fire at a bank vault. But in my first programs was developed a program that when executed printed a Playboy bunny on the printer that said underneath “computers aren't always dull” I'm not sure other people were amused but I was.In school I had taken one of those test that says what you're supposed to achieve for. In other words you answered all these pretty idiotic questions and it returned on this post to be a “fire watcher” well more correctly but less funny of forest ranger… which is essentially the same thing.For some reason this is not seem overly exciting and becoming a veterinarian was still top priority. Somehow that summer I applied for jobs that like a thousand kids were applying for to work for the US Park service (go figure). It was to be with other kids and college students at work inside the park's behind-the-scenes…. pretty cool. Amazingly enough somehow I got the job.When I graduated from high school I really found myself interested in computers. Universities were only teaching on mainframes and Apple had just released the Apple II. To me…. mainframes were dinosaur waiting to die. I just could not sign myself up to college and learn COBOL. Instead I invested in the Apple. I became self-taught and quite proficient with the computer. It probably has less memory and less capabilities than your cell phone but at the time it was state-of-the-art.I start off working in the printing industry and then went to work for companies selling magnetic media (floppy disk, tapes) for computers. I eventually work my self up to assistant purchasing agent for the national Association of realtors specializing in computers. I was hired away by a newly developed software specialty Co. that wanted me to work with them. I continued with them until joining with one of their employees a few years later to form our own company. Together we were able to form large contracts for computers with major government and corporate customers.The company was growing incredibly fast and we needed more capital to expand we took on a multimillionaire partner who unfortunately did not help us but help themselves. Eventually through a long legal battle we sued the partner and were awarded a 4.2 million dollar judgment by a jury…. (Prince George County Post front page). Unfortunately after many motions and appeals we never really got a dime. I do thank the jury for listing through the three-week trial. What I learned from this is whatever you do avoid legal battles no one wins except maybe the lawyers. Also sometimes your best partner is yourself.But most people would be drained or completely beaten at this point I started a new computer company from scratch and hired back some of the programmers from the original company. They were eager to work with me and I admired their skills and trusted them fully. Together we formed APDI and became the largest service bureau for bulletin boards in the world. We developed the product Cheetah which to this day I still get people who say I knew that product or use it.We worked on serious projects constantly for huge corporations but I also want to develop some off-the-wall projects. One of my off-the-wall projects was an auction site. (Before eBay was out there). Everyone kept telling me he was a bad idea and I approached a large classified ad place that liked by presentation but did not see them being replaced by anything online. To my knowledge those guys are no longer around and eBay has become a mega online auction giant.One of our later projects was Girlstellall . The programmers I had really built an incredible unique system where people could pose some very intimate stories about themselves.I still want APDI and have a number of customers. My oldest son and I do investing together on the stock market.