Marke's Blog

BookMooch and Prisons

Marke Clinger — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:07:10 +0000

As you know from a previous posting, I have been using BookMooch to trade used books. This week I received a mooch from “Prison Book Program“. A quick search directed me to the web site explaining this is a non-profit organization that gives books to prisoners. I had no idea this organization existed. BookMooch seems like [...]

Outlining: What Google Docs is Missing

Marke Clinger — Thu, 01 May 2008 04:57:05 +0000

As a user of a PC at work and a Mac at home, I am always on the lookout for applications that will allow me to get my work done using my Mac when I work at home. Eventually I would like to follow many others and switch to a Macbook Pro as my work [...]

Bookmooch: Free Books from the Airport

Marke Clinger — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:33:42 +0000

My wife and kids read at least twice as many books as I do per year, which makes our collective used book generation pretty significant. A few months ago I signed up for the Bookmooch service to give our used books away. I was surprised at how fast books where being mooched (requested) from my [...]

Skydeck - Analytics for Mobile Conversations

Marke Clinger — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:52:19 +0000

I am glad I made it into the first 500 people invited to use Skydeck. After reading the basics about it the night before I couldn’t wait to get into the Beta. As you know I am in sales and I use my Blackberry as my primary communication device. I don’t have an office phone, [...]

X-RAID: The Borg of Network Attached Storage

Marke Clinger — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:23:47 +0000

by Marke Clinger This weekend I did the unimaginable. I purposefully pulled out, one by one, every drive in my ReadyNAS NV RAID while it was running. I am pretty familiar with RAID technology because of the work I did in the late ’80s with several pioneering companies working on early RAID and network attached storage [...]

Now That’s Service! – Yousendit Callback in 9 minutes

Marke Clinger — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:03:36 +0000

At 5:35pm tonight my phone rang with the area code of 408, Silicon Valley. Hum could it be mom? I don’t have any customers in that area code. I was still in my office in Santa Cruz, CA trying to figure out if I could track who downloaded a file using Yousendit’s Outlook plug-in. [...]

Personal Universe - Netvibes Ginger

Marke Clinger — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:33:29 +0000

My position as a sales professional keeps me very busy and on the road. Keeping up on the news and events on the Internet is important not only for my profession, but also for my hobbies. Netvibes has been my feed reader of choice for the last couple of years due to its ability to [...]

Part 2 - My Second Life Theme Explained

Marke Clinger — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:30:03 +0000

This posting is the second and final explanation for my blog theme My Second Life. I sent my first e-mail in the summer of 1983 after joining Omni Products, a startup specializing in disk drive technology.

What the theme - My Second Life - is about

Marke Clinger — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:30:29 +0000

I was looking for a theme for my blog when my wife suggested “My Second Life”. Her meaning was my work life, which is totally separate from my family life. That will definitely be a part of this blog. There are several reasons for this segregation of family and work, the biggest being business travel. In [...]