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Name:	R. Allan Phillips
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Owning and operating a small one-horse woodworking and custom cabinet biz for almost 20 years has by no means made this editor rich, but it has left the boy with a respectable set of "street-smart" survival skills.

Also, being a product of the idealistic, "share it and pass it on" communal life style of the hippy-dippy 60's,.. it's a daily struggle to live and work in the "grab all you can and horde it till you die" market-driven self centered 90's.

Yeah,.. but what are you gonna do?...Can one person really make a difference in the vast cosmos?

Maybe.. and maybe not... But the way I look at it , at least giving it a try is certainly better than sitting on one's tookus and whining about it! And, if you are going to give it a shot, one of the best places to do it my friend, is on the Internet.

It's amazing how a set "street-smart" survival skills converted into a few illustrated pages of tips and techniques, heavily seasoned with irreverent humor and posted on a small block of server space can help introduce a whole new group of folks to the wonderful world of woodworking. Where else are you going to be able to touch the lives of 100,000 plus without ever leaving your personal little comfy-zone?

So.. it only makes sense I suppose, that I end up here as a volunteer editor for the Open Directory Project editing several woodworking related categories. Still, by no means getting rich, but using those survival skills acquired professionally, along with new ones acquired from the dog-eat-dog world of trying to get noticed on the web,...not as weapons in the bloody battle to "get rich on the Internet"... but as tools to help pioneer the wild and woolly WWW into old fashioned communities of just...folks.

Indeed, one person can make a difference, fellow humanoid... Why not give it a shot?