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Archive for April, 2004

Jazz Fest in New Orleans

28th April 2004

Here are a few photos from the trip. There are a few more in the photo album. I’ll look through the phone cam shots next and post any good ones I find.

Mandi and Aliza at Jazz Fest Norman with a Hand Grenade Sean at Armstrong Park
Jennifer and her new psychic Mandi in Pirates Alley Crawfish at Jazz Fest

Grand Cayman trip photos

1st April 2004

We took a trip to Grand Cayman at the end of February. We’d last been there about ten years ago. It didn’t seem all that different, maybe a couple more hotels along the beach, and there was more traffic than I remembered.

Rusty Cayman wreck Mandi at the beach in cool glasses Cayman beach
Dove on the Mastic Trail Frog on a tree Dead puffer fish

We went on a guided nature walk on the Mastic Trail. I was amazed at the variety of wildlife we encountered, but only managed to photo a slow-moving dove and unmoving tree frog.

Cherry blossoms

1st April 2004

The cherry trees around the tidal basin and elsewhere started blooming in earnest last weekend. Here are a few examples of what I found:

White cherry blossoms Hanging cherry blossoms Pink fringed cherry blossoms
Pink cherry blossoms at the arboretum Washington Monument and blooming cherry trees Crisp white cherry blossoms

Abiword blues

1st April 2004

Abiword is a nice, fast word processor. OpenOffice.org is better for importing and editing complex documents, but it can be painfully slow so I only use it if I have to. Abiword is also usually very stable, so I was surprised when it started crashing on startup. I tried upgrading, I tried downgrading, but it kept crashing. I finally found this bug report at Redhat’s Bugzilla. Comment 8 mentions starting Abiword like this:

$ abiword --geometry 800x600

Not sure why or how, but it worked!