How to CSS DropShadows erzeugt. I could imagine using that for my photos. But it acts up in IE 5.5 for Mac OS X. Besides, drop shadows are only for wimps and softies anyway.
Archive 12. February 2005
DGB Chief Accepts Restructuring of Welfare State
DGB Chef accepts welfare state restructuring and in doing so makes unions obsolete. I had written a longer text here, but somehow after my recent content deletion I no longer have it available. If anyone still has it in their RSS reader, please let me know, otherwise it's just gone.
New Polaroid 600 SE
New Polaroid 600 SE
I got myself a new Polaroid 600 SE. My old one was pretty beat up — from a bargain bin, broken shutter release, dents, dings, etc. The new one is in pristine condition. And it even came with the 127 lens, which I had been missing so far. Nice optics, especially with a much more sensible minimum focus distance than the 150. And the results look great — I just love Polaroids. However, my scanner was pretty dusty after not being used for a long time, and of course the dust didn't just disappear after a few wipes. As a result, there were lots of dust streaks visible in the image. Well, Photoshop and the Polaroid Dust & Scratch Removal Plugin saved the image pretty well. But anyway, I don't usually scan my Polaroids — I make them for the photo album. Really old-fashioned, with cardboard pages, tissue overlays and such …
Don't be surprised about the content of my blog...
... there's just a rogue admin with a stupid script that messed everything up and destroyed all the content. Somehow everything is being reconstructed and repaired and ironed out and folded back together. Somehow. And afterwards I'm going to stand in the corner and flog myself ...
Update: now everything has been largely restored. What happened: I switched from Exhibit to my own plugin for images. And in doing so, I rewrote all posts with image entries via script. But in the generated UPDATE, I stupidly forgot the WHERE clause ...
Losses: my post about the DGB and the wording in today's posts. Everything else was reconstructed from a backup. And a few nerves. And I've written it behind my ears for the x-th time that I should make a current backup before tinkering in the future. Which of course won't do any good, because I can't read behind my ears without two mirrors ...
Update 2: and of course I was so great during the weblog reconstruction that I also overwrote the changed image posts, so now all posts in the picture blog are without photos. I can't believe it. It's either a full moon or something today ...
Which means I have to get creative again to pull the images back into the posts, because of course I deleted all the mapping tables, since I don't need them anymore. But I still have them all in the backup, so it won't be as bad as before
Update 3: now everything should be largely back the way it was. And the last repair actually went without major catastrophes
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