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High-tech firms, including Cisco Systems, 3Com, Oracle, IBM and others, are boosting their efforts to teach teachers the latest technologies, hoping to reap the benefits of a highly skilled labor force of new college graduates. Even when errors don't produce problems with the current version of Netscape, they might in some future browser. Weblint is a free program you can install on your PC, or can be run via the web. Weblint will examine your page and give you a report on any problems it finds. For conferences that require physical travel, my emphasis is on conferences in the Northwest and on those I find personally interesting.