Attorney and journalist Amy Bach spent eight years investigating the widespread courtroom failures that each day upend lives across America. In the process, she discovered how the professionals who work in the system, however well intentioned, cannot see the harm they are doing to the people they serve. In a sweeping inquiry that moves from [...]

In today’s technoriffic and twittertastic age, a website is your required alchemy into this abstruse domain. Since you’re just discovering the internets, an intertubular site de web is really the beginner’s apparatus. Forget about tweeter and blogors and the webosphere; file that for later. Being a web developer myself, I’ve generously created this example Craigslist [...]

About one year ago I embarked on a very special journey, by accepting what was an exceptionally important project. A project driven by someone I am happy to be acquainted with, who is nothing less than stellar.
Gwenn Voelckers, visionary of AloneAndContent.com, along with her sister Anne Palumbo and graphic designer Kevin Siebert, shared in my [...]

jQuery’s slideToggle() method is great for creating things like accordions. Unfortunately it seems I am not alone when I say it’s buggy. The sliding animation can flicker and/or appear to jump, depending on the browser and version of jQuery.
After much trial and error, I realized that this problem can be solved by applying an explicit [...]

The first I forgot to mention when it went up. Cook’s Champagne.
The second is a great wine, Paso Creek.
Drink and be merry :)