Don't go [br]ing my heart

I am a woman obsessed.

I can't tear myself away, I moon over it when it's not right in front of me. I dream of it, I pine for it.

I have fallen in love with html.

Since beginning my new job as managing editor at The News Record, I have learned more about Web sites and html in two weeks than I have in 19 years.

It's funny, but it gets me excited about the tiniest things. If you check out newsrecord.org, look at the red date bar right under the masthead. On the right side, you'll see four links: Contact Us, Classifieds, Advertise and Donate. Getting those links on that bar? Took me a good half hour. Minimum.

If you then visit the College Living page, you'll see an article about energy drinks. The article has 16 images of the different drinks we reviewed, each of which links to the individual review.

Adjusting the image sizes of each drink, figuring out the coding for the html element and setting it up for all 16 drinks? A good 3-hour process.

I pour over html coding from other Web sites, pulling up the "view source" in hopes of finding fascinating new code. I see something on another site and drool over the possibilities.

It's not like I wasn't dorky enough already ... I think I'm on the verge of becoming a bonafide nerd.

... And I love it.

- Ariel