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Because I was on such a tight time schedule after the Ford debacle, I hadn’t got a chance to see the calendars until the samples arrived today. They’re not bad, not quite up to the quality of last year’s (I suspect calendars aren’t the first order of business at Lulu), but still pretty good.

One thing is bad, though, and that’s the holidays on the calendars themselves. They give you the options to have many different nation’s holidays on the calendar, and I opted for several different ones. I’m staring at a calendar right now that does the same…unfortunately, Lulu’s output mechanism isn’t too bright, and holidays that are shared among all of the nations overflow the date box for that day. Bah. The preview showed only the US holidays anyway, so it wasn’t too clear.

I’m resetting them to only show “US” events as that will at least not overflow the date boxes. My apologies for this snafu. It wouldn’t be the data sites calendar without one major cock-up. I revised the calendars online to correct this from this point forward.

There’s now a “captcha” for entering comments. Spammers sure take the fun out of the internet…

There are some big numbers brewing on the various car and image counts.

• Images: We now have 73,000 images across all of the sites. The XK site just passed 10,000 images!
• Cars: We now have over 16,000 cars across all of the sites. The E-Type site is creeping towards 10,000, less than 300 to go!

Thanks to everyone who adds car or photo data to the sites! Especially to be thanked is PaulS, who tirelessly seeks out cars and adds them at a rate I find astonishing.

You know, screw Ford, pardon my French. They are mistaken and I’m not going to let a bunch of…well, you probably see where I’m heading. So I’m going to switch my vending to a different online provider, and cease selling any T-shirts and the like for the time-being. But I will sell calendars.

The other online vendor’s calendars don’t seem as “fancy” as Cafe Press’ did, so they may be a bit more modest in presentation. I will also be changing the logos a bit on the calendars to eliminate ANY chance that trademarks could be construed as having been used.

I ask y’all to be patient and to please buy one or more when I have them posted for sale. They’re nice to have and they do help support the site! Price should be about the same, in the range of $15 - 25 US (that’s probably 2 Euros or $10 Canadian, at the rate the dollar has been plummeting).