This website provides a look at my writing and editing work, and also serves as a testing ground for the design tools I review as a freelancer for HOW Magazine. You'll find a retrospective of my journalism career, a description of my day job as an editor for Bulldog Reporter and a gallery of photo albums about interesting places in Northern California. And no visit would be complete without a trip to my online store. See the space below for updates on my work.

November 26, 2010 I just completed a freelance assignment for HOW Magazine about web font services. This is a new category of online services that provide an easy way for designers to include high-quality typography in their web projects. I mentioned these: Fontdeck, Fonts.com Web Fonts, Google Fonts, Typekit, WebINK and Webtype. They operate in similar ways, but I found some key distinctions that you can read about as soon as the article goes live. I'm now using Google Fonts on this site.

Sept. 15, 2010 I wrote a 4000-word behemoth for HOW Magazine about HTML5, CSS3 and how their rich media capabilities compare with those in Adobe Flash. Its roots go back to spring, when Adobe and Apple were engaged in a nasty dispute over Apple's refusal to allow Flash on the iPhone and iPad. At the time, Steve Jobs was touting the new web technologies as a replacement for Flash. Most of the public discussion was about HTML5's plug-in-free video capabilities, but I was curious about how these technologies replicated Flash's vector-animation functions. I couldn't find any in-depth articles aimed at non-programmers, so I decided to write one myself.

May 10, 2010 A mega review for HOW Magazine of a mega software product: Adobe's Creative Suite. I wrote about the seven core applications for designers: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, Flash Catalyst and Fireworks. Fortunately, it ran online, so I didn't have any space constraints.