Mike Clark was born and raised in the eastern Cleveland, Ohio city of Euclid, and moved to Florida in 1982. Having grown up in Southwest Florida during the 1980s, Mike has seen a lot of change and development. In fact, for Mike one of the few constants has been change, and he's learned to adapt to it rather well.

Mike became a part of the Apple Macintosh computer scene, as well as the desktop publishing, graphic design, and multimedia scenes rather early on, during the 1980s, and has had the benefit of seeing the changes (or, in some cases, the curious lack thereof) which have come about in the decades since. He's worked for numerous print-based organizations, both large and small, and because of his involvement in the 1980s -- well before any "For Dummies" self-help books or the Internet -- has always had to be self-sufficient.

However, with age and experience comes wisdom, and the knowledge of how to discern the good paths from the bad along the road ahead, a lesson he's taken with him during the curiously parallel, turbulent and empowering technological age of computers. This might, perhaps, seem a rather fair amount of hyperbole to the average person, but stop and consider this: in the 1980s, there was no defacto, industry standard as there is today in the technology arena. Microsoft was every bit as much of a bit player as was Sun, or Apple, or Leading Edge, or Commodore or any of a number of hopeful contenders in the computer platform space. This brings a perspective sadly lacking for most of today's participants who, by definition, have never known a computer world that wasn't so monochromatically Microsoft-or-Apple, nor so utterly pervaded and saturated by one operating system vendor's product -- that is, Windows.

In an age when we are being told choice is good, and yet the forces at work seek to silence the alternatives to their product offerings, most people have become so rigidly indoctrinated into buying or using the same few things over and over again that society has fallen into a rut, seemingly without a thought of change. If this seems to you a condemnation of what is, then understand you may be onto something. Please realize that Mike understands and agrees with the notions that "always and never" rarely ever are true, and that change is neither good nor bad in itself, but rather it depends on a mix of the means used and the ends achieved.

All this is to say Mike can see the big picture, and can also "think outside the box" to achieve realistic and sustainable results which will stand the test of time.