I recently invested in a 30D as an entrance into the DSLR world as well as purchased Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson after seeing hundreds of recommendations from POTN. I am reading the book now and learning a lot about the triangle and getting an excellent idea of the trade-offs of each to get the correct exposure (I mean... creatively correct exposure) 
There is something that I find rather confusing and I am not sure if I just missed it in the beginning or what. For every example image there is in the book, he always says something like "I aimed the camera at _____ (insert something about the environment here) at ___ shutter speed and adjusted by aperture until the camera meter indicated ___ was correct."
For the 30D, is the meter the tickers you see at the bottom when looking through the viewfinder? For basic shots on a sunny day - is it the point to try to get compensate to get the meter to point to 0 (center) ?
Thanks... I warned ya about the newb alert. 
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