I don’t know why IE has such difficulty rendering prefectly good code.  I finally got my theme set up just the way I like it (well, mostly anyway, there are still a few more things to add, but it works, in Mozilla, Firefox, and other broswers! on multiple platforms!), then I tried looking at it in Explorer… Ugh.  The right floated images work… sometimes. Some work, some are centered, with the background color spanning the entire page width, even though the code and css are identical.  Then I checked it in IE on a Mac, even worse! One of the header images doesn’t even appear, the right-hand portion of the header just floats in space, with a blank area to the left of it, and none of the sidebar backgrounds show up!

So the moral of the story is… dump Exploder! Use any other broswer: (Mozilla, Firefox, Camino), Opera. If enough people do this, maybe Microsoft will fix their broken software. But if a majority keep using it despite its poor performance, they have no reason to change it. I, for one, am tired of breaking my code to fit a broken application. If you’re viewing this page with IE and something looks not quite right, blame MS, not me. And please, do us all a favor, and start using a browser that works. Thanks.

Last night Reggie and Gigi treated Terry and I to dinner at Restaurant Bacchus’ Wine up your Week Wednesday. Every Wednesday Bacchus offers two for one bottles of select wine. We really enjoy our wines, so we had four for two. Drank three and Reg sent the fourth home with us. (edit: It was shared with friends on Friday at the Frederiksted Economic Development Association’s Sunset Jazz.)

Dinner was excellent, as usual. We started with the Crispidy, Crunchidy, so Tasty & Yummy Calamari and some of the Shrimp appetizer special shared around the table. Terry had a Southgate local greens salad and I had Bacchus’ famous beet salad. I was so engrossed in my salad, I don’t know if or what Reggie and Gigi had for salad. I do know they enjoyed their Caribbean Spiny Lobster tails. Reggie ordered a medium tail he’d been dreaming about since February, Gigi ordered a small. When they arrived, both were quite generous.

I had a fresh Wahoo special and Terry had Halibut. Both were scrumptious, as was the lobster ( I helped Gigi finish hers, you can always take wahoo home, but lobster just isn’t the same the next day). We were all too stuffed for dessert, we didn’t even have any of Bacchus’ lovely melt in your mouth (and usually in your hands too) after-dinner dark chocolates.

Before we left, Reggie made reservations for his next visit, in February 2007. Which is not as odd as it sounds, Bacchus fills fast, so make your reservations early.

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Carambola Beach Resort Pool

Well, we’ve all heard this before, but once again rumors are circulating… Carambola Beach Resort has secured an agreement with a flagship resort name. The one we’ve heard floating around is Marriot, but we have no verification at all. Anyone with more info want to fill us in?

Meanwhile, we’ll keep our fingers crossed. Carambola has so much potential, just needs a little TLC, which, btw it appears to be getting. We were out there yesterday and there were saws whirring, drills spinning, jack-hammers pounding… a lot of activity. Lets hope it bears fruit.