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Archives: April, 2004

Jazz Fest in New Orleans

28th April 2004

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

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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.

We went on a guided nature walk on the [...]

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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:

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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 [...]

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