I've released Version 2 of my Photoshop CS2 Calendar-Template-Building script.

Here's a summary of new features:

Added the ability to populate the calendar with holiday/birthdays/etc data read from a file. Added an "auto save" feature, particularly useful when generating whole-year templates for distribution.

Summary of bug fixes:

Fixed the "weeks start on Monday" option, which had been broken when building all months in one shot. Fixed the pre-set margins and such for Portrait mode actually work properly (see an example above). It now references only fonts that come standard with CS2. I thought that's what I'd done, but [...]
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Today started like most days, with Anthony waking me up because he wants some milk. (He normally gets up before us and plays until he gets thirsty enough to wake us up.)

Walking into the livingroom/kitchen, I said "It smells a bit like poopy in here" and looked at him. I checked his butt to see whether he'd done a poor job of wiping, but that seemed fine. I asked whether he knew what the smell was, and he got quiet. Uh oh, this is not a good sign.

After a bit, he said "I want you [...]
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My sister keeps her photos on Yahoo! Photos. This is unfortunate, because it's a bad photos service.

I don't know when Yahoo! lost its way (although my first guess would be when they got rid of me *  🙂, but they seem to spend their time now making things "flashy" instead of the "useful" and "intuitive" of the old days. Most recently, this manifested itself with a big screwup of their TV-listing sit.

With the current version of Y! Photos that debuted during the summer, they have perhaps added useful features, but in the process, made the site really inconvenient [...]
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Last week I showed four-year-old Anthony with a messy face, and received comments like "that's not a messy face," with commenters recklessly comparing my well-behaved four-year-old with their snotty-nosed incorrigibles as infants.

Well, I used to have one of those, too 🙂

11-Month-Old Anthony in Various Stages of Un-Eat

Notice the rice in his nose in the left-hand picture.

Anyway, here's a followup to the messy face post. When asked to smile for the camera, Anthony tries, but it's a very fake, plastic smile. So while taking pictures of his messy face, I did various things to try to [...]

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