Rodent Regatta

This entry is number 3000. In so many ways it is just as frustrating as the prior 2999. Since January 13, 2002, I’ve been trying to learn how to hand-code entries in weblogs. Lately, I’ve been trying to learn how to write valid XHTML code, tags, whatever you call it.

I love weblogs. I hate not understanding what’s under the hood of Movable Type, CSS, XHTML, RSS and all the rest of the alphabet soup. I’m at a loss to know how to learn more effectively. I stare at so much source code and a thousand times a day ask, ”Why did they do it that way?” Sometimes it’s even more basic, ”What does that mean?” Frustration – that’s what it means.

January 13, 2002 is now nineteen and a half months ago. People get advanced degrees in that amount of time. Here I am still struggling to understand what all the tags mean, much less when and how to apply them. Books, tools, websites, editors, standards, validators and all the rest become such a blur. There’s got to be an effective way to learn this stuff. It makes me feel like an idiot to not ’get it.’

To think I started this because I thought it would be fun to learn.