Ever viewed the source of a modern web page to see how the designers and developers are doing something in Javascript, then come across the dollar sign ($) all over the place? The first time I noticed it was already several years ago, and I remember being intimidated, simply because I was not familiar with [...]

I’ve started and stopped lots of blogs.  One of them, German History Blog, is actually still alive, though in danger of folding if I don’t get motivated and start posting there again.  Another, billdawson.com, I treat as my “home-base”, so to speak, where I let myself talk about anything.  When I get serious about something, [...]