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I learned something about myself this year. I learned that I don't own a blue beanie. I never promised that this was going to be a ground breaking discovery, just something I learned.

The reason I bring this up is, as you may know, November 30 is the International Blue Beanie Day in support of web standards. On this day, web nerds from across the world should don a blue toque and remember the importance of developing websites using the designated standards.

Since I don't own such a magical helmet, I showed my support this year by readingDeveloping with Web Standards by John Allsopp. Another "Voices that Matter" series book by New Riders, the book focuses on the client side development of a web site. This means it concentrates on the aspects of web development that touch the web browsers, and more importantly, the part that the end user sees.

The book is focused towards people who already understand the underlying principals of web development, so it won't be much use to your aunt who is trying learn how to build that knitting website, or your typical Dreamweaver user. It also won't be the quick reference for developers who need a quick reminder of the detail that is eluding them, and forgot how to use Google.

So I was mucking around with this site and deleted all the content. Did I want to delete all content? No.. Is it better that I did? Yes.