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Linux Fest Northwest 2008 is April 26 & 27 at Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Washington!

I had a great time last year and even won a Silicon Mechanics server.

I’ll be making the geek pilgrimage again this year and hope to see you there.

Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (Hardy Heron) LTS will be formally released on April 24, 2008 and I'm excited.

Aside from some of the new and updated features, I'm thrilled that it's a Long Term Support release, which means Canonical will support it for 3 years on desktops and 5 years on servers.

Since the quality of Linux distributions has increased tremendously over the last few years, I've been growing out of my distro hopping tendencies and want a release that I can stick with for a long time. For now, Ubuntu is it.

Well, another CSS Naked Day is over and I'm happy to have participated. It's a wonderful exercise, seeing plain jane markup without the benefit of CSS styling. It illustrates:

1. the power of CSS, and
2. how clean, non-presentational xhtml markup and logical document structure can make a site usable even without the cheery look & feel

As part of site testing, I strip away stylesheets to see what the content looks like to search engines and other devices that don't support CSS.

In celebration of CSS Naked Day, I've stripped off my CSS and am running with my semantic markup hanging out. Somebody sew my head on please!

sewmyheadon.com will strip down and get naked on April 9th in support of CSS Naked Day. Dustin Diaz created this 'holiday' to promote Web Standards by stripping away the presentational (CSS) elements on a site to show semantic markup and good structure. If you're running WordPress, you automate your site's undressing using the CSS Naked Day Plugin by Aja Lapus. I've got a little toning up to do beforehand - off to my workout.