So multiple loops are a must if you want to be able to display any data at all from your wordpress database.

Again, the referral is here for the codex entry.

And, I have accomplished it!

The side pain features “Featured Posts” — in actuality, its just the posts from “Computers” category, and the latest 4 posts.

The Loop is actually demystified if you basically think about it as 1) you querying the wordpress database 2)scrolling throuhg all of the results — which are all records, and the output of that query is a “loop” of records.