On Tinkering

Posted by Danny Sanchez on January 21st 2009 to random stuff,web development

Some day, I’ll tell you folks the story of how I accidentally launched my online journalism career by building a seat-of-the-pants web site for the Hispanic Student Association in college using Adobe GoLive 6.0 (don’t make fun of me, dammit!).

In the meantime, XKCD says it best:

11th_grade

(BTW, Perl is a programming language sometimes used for web application development.)

[XKCD: 11th Grade]

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4 Responses to “On Tinkering”

  1. Daniel
    January 22nd, 2009 | 8:47 am

    Hilarious. You know what got me my job? Tinkering with SEO/social media a bit.

    Well, that, along with the whole journalism bit. I like to think I wasn’t half bad…

  2. Danny Sanchez
    January 22nd, 2009 | 9:43 am

    @Daniel You really should tell that story on Old Media New Tricks one of these days.

  3. Danny L. McDaniel
    January 30th, 2009 | 10:36 pm

    Tinkering is the one activity that keeps the world moving forward. So tinker to your hearts delight. Now just tinker to find a way to keep newspapers relevant!

    Danny L. McDaniel
    Lafayette, Indiana

  4. Danny Sanchez
    February 2nd, 2009 | 9:39 pm

    Thanks Danny. That’s what I try to do every day at work. And at night. And sometimes on the weekends…