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Santa Barbara Community Church again had a group of people going to Santa Cruz Island in the Channel Islands chain off the California Coast. Photos of this trip here.

In March I took a combination business/pleasure trip to Missouri. I went to the NAIA DI basketball national tournament in Kansas City, then continued on to St. Louis for a BSA staff meeting. See the photos here.

In early February I needed to take a business trip to Washington DC. Since I had never been there before I booked a couple of extra days to see the sights. See the photo gallery here.

I've posted a few photos of my backpacking trip to Young Lakes in the gallery.

I have this discussion often with the various groups of people that I work with, and usually they don't believe me, and I come off as an old tech fogey, resistant to "modern technology". That's OK, because I know that one day they'll have a bad experience and realize that I'm right :). And I've given up trying to change how people use email anyway; that horse has left the barn, and it's too late to close the doors. So now I'm just going to refer people to this briefing and let it go at that; they'll be duly warned, and will at least be able to anticipate the problems they may encounter. Here's an Executive Summary if you're not interested in the details:

• You can't assume that viewing incoming html email won't infect your computer with a virus;


• You can't assume that a sender of an html email isn't tracking whether you are looking at the email - or even previewing it;


• You can't assume that your formatted message will look good to your recipients;


• You can't assume that your recipients will even be able to read your formatted message;


• You can't assume that the automatically created plain text version of your message will look good, or even work at all.

If you are interested in the details, read on...

In mid June 2005, I went on a camping trip with a group of people from my church. See the image gallery.

I started a new job with the Botanical Society of America in May of 2005 and have added a photo gallery for related images. To start out, I went to visit their main offices in Saint Louis in June.

Prior to starting my new job with the Botany Society of America, I spent some time with my friend Glenn Flaming and his family in Bath, Maine. See the images here.

Shortly after their wedding, (not too short!) I went to make a quick visit to Alex & Luca in Frankfurt. Photos added here.

In February of 1999, Frankfurt friends Alexandra Schuldt and Luca Cinelli got married in San Francisco. The photo album has been added here.