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Today’s cake: apple cake without cake:

• 4-5 apples

• 150g marzipan

• 150g dark chocolate

• 50g butter

• hazel nuts

Prepare the pan with butter, add sliced apples, spread little pieces of marzipan all over, and put chopped chocolate and nuts on top

Finally add slices of butter on top and put it in the oven on 225 degrees until the chocolate is fully melted and the apples tender.

Ryan Boren has released Kubrick 1.3-RC2. According to him, the changes since RC1 are:

• Added 404 page
• Images are loaded from stylesheet_dir instead of template_directory
• Added links.php and archives.php page templates

After doing a diff between the two, I find that the only file that has been changed is index.php (true, the stylesheet has had a version bump in the comment, but that’s all). That means, comments, archives, index, footer, page, search, searchform and sidebar are unchanged. Good news if you’re using Kubrick as a template for building your theme like I am, but bad luck if you were hoping Kubrick is going somewhere. The RC’s seem to be status quo designwise but implementing WP13 features more and more. Up to you to decide how you like it. I don’t mind too much, but I’m always excited to see what new design ideas are thrown around.

Right, it’s time for changes for this blog. I need the following: a photoblog section and a linkblog section. I need to revamp my photo gallery. And I should seriously not use this page to show that I don’t have a clue about what colours match.

Linkblog - if I just want to post a quick link, it takes up too much space as is. They should be collected and placed in one go on my page. I plan on implementing a linkblog and photoblog by just putting the contents in its own category. This category should then of course NOT be in the category listing.

For the photoblog I expect to have a separate theme now that I use WP13-cvs anyway. For the link aggregation I probably need to write a little plugin or so, should give me an excluse to look at the plugin architecture. With Gallery I expect to be going back to 1.4.4, the speed of Gallery 2 just isn’t there. My server is a 500Mhz thingy and that’s been sufficient for a looong time. It should be sufficient for Gallery 2 as well

I’m not the only one to receive my Canon 20D, Michael Reichmann has an excelent followup on his last review. I agree with his comment on the shutter sound, my first reaction was Argh!. This will be bad in so many situations. But, the camera is so seriously great that I’ll happily live with that. Only question is: Michael, what happened when you got busted by the two?

My picture taken (by my mum) at Fanø with the EOS 20D. Quite cropped, stored to the camera at moderate compression. Quick summary: I took ~330 photos, my battery STILL shows full power status.

My main concern is really with my lenses.I couldn’t afford a 17-85 IS lens, so I have the 17-55mm and my trusty old 28-80mm (picture above is taken with this lens). Oh, and it’s quite heavy, which is a pro when taking the picture, but having walked around with it in my right hand the entire day, I can feel it in my shoulder. Now I have to work on my blog for a nice photoblog section as this camera sure will get addictive

Update: Randal L. Schwartz loves his EOS 20D too. He talks a bit in phrases like in an artful stroke of madness and so on, and I need to think a bit about this as I do very much agree with many critiques of the “snapshot culture”, but I think that these critiques are usually a bit too harsh from people who get more competition. So I need to find my view on the balance. More on that later