My Inner Geek

Today I'm rather proud of myself. I managed to tweak a few things here and there in Blogger's XHTML code with no help (zero, none, nada) from any of my geek friends. Well, sort of. I didn't call anyone, but I did scour the Internet.

My point: as far as non-geeks go, I have a touch o'geekiness. I cannot boast the title Geek of the code-writing, major-hacking, bad-ass-fixing variety by any stretch of the imagination, but I have gotten in touch with my inner geek. It was beautiful.

Getting to the code and managing to do what I wanted to do with it has me doing the happy dance--the geeky all-knees-and-elbows I-fixed-it-my-self happy dance.

I Messed with the Code!

Another success on my path to Geekdom!

There is something completely intoxicating about messing with code for those of us with expertise outside the fascinating innards of computer programs. It's like getting to do mini-surgery without the needles and yuck. But I digress.

I added an add to del.icio.us link to the footer of my post!

Then, I added the icon and reordered the three lines of my footer. When I hit save, I literally held my breath waiting for the site to load. I bit my lip in fear of the reproving red letters detailing a complicated error I probably wouldn't even be able to understand.

Then... YES! I got the code to do exactly what I intended!

What a rush. I swear, this must be what it's like to sky dive. And it's a whole lot safer to boot.

Three small achievements to be sure. But these little achievements add up to one notable success in my book. I'm very proud.

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