Archive 10. June 2005

Canon Optics

A nice collection can be found at Digital Outback Photo - some of the lenses I already have (the 50/2.5 Macro and the 100/2.8 Macro), a few I plan to add to my collection in the long run.

Nothing to add

Artist makes soap from Berlusconi's fat:

"I thought mainly about the fact that soap is often made from lard, and I liked the idea that you can wash your ass with a real piece of Berlusconi"

Beautiful WordPressing

WordPress Administration Design: Tiger is a very nice CSS modification for the WordPress backend. It's especially rewarding for design-spoiled Apple users.

A useful addition is the following part in the wp-admin.css:

body#wpbookmarklet {
 padding: 23px 0 50px 5px;
 background: #FFF;
}

This hides the left margin in the bookmarklet. The margin only wastes space in the bookmarklet. Additionally, I also shortened the bg_body.gif to 160px and then reduced the widths of the adminmenu to 120px and 110px for the LI in the adminmenu, and reduced the padding of the normal body from 245px to 175px. This saves some space on the left - I only have a 1024x768 pixel screen resolution, so space is precious.

Update: meanwhile, there is the Tiger Admin as a plugin - installation no longer requires modification of the core files, and the bookmarklet problem is also gone - the bookmarklet now simply uses the old style and only the normal admin is updated.

Black-Yellow breaks election promises even before the formation of the government

GEW criticizes Schwarz-Gelb's plans for elementary school policy:

The unionist's conclusion: "Anything that costs money: no sign of it." The points announced before the election - e.g. more teacher positions, smaller classes, teaching guarantee - are no longer a topic, instead "old conservative educational policy patterns are being served."

They probably even believe themselves ...

Clement and Eichel campaign for higher wages - let's wait for the protests from the Union and the economy. Pavlov sends his regards. I would naturally prefer it if they just drooled in response to external stimuli ...