Greetings
Well now, here I am online and finally with a blog. For those of you who are surprised to see me doing this, yeah me too. For those of you who are surprised it took me this long to do….well, yeah, me too. After all, I’m online all the time, I’ve been known to be pretty regular in certain discussion boards and newsgroups. So why am I doing it? Who knows. Because I can. Why now? Well, because it’s about time. And, I’ve got some interesting things going on right now (well, interesting to me).
For those that don’t know me yet (as in, those few random strangers that I suppose will inevitably happen upon this site), my name is David Killian Woods, but if you see somebody online as ‘luxfx’ that’s probably me. It happens to be a completely unique handle — as of this posting, every Google result for ‘luxfx’ that isn’t derived from a random collection of letters, has something to do with me. Cool!
I’m a web designer/developer, software developer (occassionally), and a few other things I suppose. With my wife, Jen, I run my own business, and a design off-shoot. I started my own company when it became painfully obvious that anytime I had full-time, so-called ‘permanent’ employment, the company would inevitably suffer tremendously and have to let me go. It’s happened with every single place I’ve been full-time at, unless you count the one time I bailed right before being let go. Well, all this marvelous experience has tought me a few things. At this point, I knew what not to do, so how hard would it be to do things right?
It’s been good enough (we’re getting by), and I’ve got enough connections that keep feeding me their own clients, that I get to spend most of my time on the work part instead of the marketing-myself part, which is how I like it. Most of this stuff is what I used to call contract or freelance work, only now I do it as the design business, and we get the tax relief that comes with owning a business.
The design business was created to seperate the web stuff from the programming stuff, which is the domain of our “Labs” division. It doesn’t bring in nearly as much money, but we’ve got a couple of pieces of software out, and I’m currently working on more. We still occassionally sell a copy of popSmarts, which was our first piece of software, a popup-killer for IE. But the really popular one is netChimes, which is freeware.
I’m also a hobbyist woodworker, making mostly jewelry boxes and turning pens on my lathe. I plan on updating the site with my new woodworking endeavours too.
But this is enough for now, the design business is going to get really busy tomorrow, and I want to get as much done on my new software before I have to ignore it for a while (sigh).
Btw, the new software is a text/code editor with lots of built-ins like FTP, image browsing, and lots of coder goodies. It’s called proteusEdit, named for the Greek god Proteus, who was able to change his form.
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