St. Croix

Katrina and I took a much-needed vacation and spent the last week down on St. Croix in the Caribbean. I have to say, this is the best time of year to vacation down there. It’s off-season, so very few tourists were around and that made the trip much more enjoyable. St. Croix doesn’t get as many tourists as the other U.S. Virgin Islands (St. Thomas and St. John) to begin with. No crowds to compete with at the beach, traffic wasn’t an issue, and overall everything was much more relaxed.

We stayed at a resort that was right on the ocean, and our room happened to be on the first floor. We were able to walk off our back patio onto the sand, and it was gorgeous. Nothing beats reading on a hammock tied to two palm trees, snorkeling was just a short walk away, and the island is small enough that nothing is too far by car. Down there they drive on the left side of the road, which took some getting used to, but after a day or two it was second nature.

I’ll post some pictures to my Flickr account in the next few days. Of course a lot of things can happen in a week, and I’m still trying to catch up. Here’s some of the more notable online events…

Logtar interviews Dan Lacher: The weekend before we left, Logtar interviewed Dan Lacher at the local MiaMUG meeting. I was on the scene to take some pictures, which can be found on my Flickr page. The Podcast itself can be found on Logtar’s blog.

Happy Apps releases WebnoteHappy 1.0: Luis de la Rosa just released his first shareware application. Back in January, Luis released WebnoteHappy Lite, the free version of the app. I mentioned it here back then and all the same things apply for the full version. I gave Luis a quote about the software, and he ended up using it on the product page so that’s pretty cool. WebnoteHappy is a really great bookmark manager, so if you’re looking for something along those lines I would suggest checking it out.

Apple released the MacBook: Not going to say much about this because it’s been on all the news sites. It’s a pretty cool notebook though for a great price. Looks great in black too…