Tinkering with complicated machinery

DOF takes the cover plate off EE, looks at all the wires and gears, and lets out a long, low whistle…

I’m used to the innards of mechanical and electrical things.  As a child I used to watch my dad restoring antique clocks and guns, fixing the car, and plumbing the house.  I used to repair cameras before it just became impossible in a small shop.  I’m restoring a 37-year-old car and I did computer repair full-time for five years.  So when I get a shiny new machine, I can’t resist pulling off the cover plates and looking inside.  All my adult life I’ve made a living doing that.

Expression engine is alien to me.  There are obviously new concepts to grasp;  I love that.  I change one little thing, save the change, and see what it does.  A picture is developing in my mind - still a bit hazy but it will come clearer as I go.  Today I got “extended text” working, so I can make my home page entries shorter and let those who care click on “Read more…” 

I just ordered The CSS Anthology, 101 essential tips, tricks, and hacks by Rachel Andrew.  Rachel is a skinny, urban web-designer chick with orange hair the color of fall leaves.  Why they put her picture on the book page, I don’t know.  Do they not want any readers over 30?  Then again, after reading the sample chapters, I bought the book, and I’m… over 30.   

Posted by George on 11/20/04 at 12:46 PM
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