Dave Burke : Freelance .NET Web Developer specializing in Online Communities

I really wanted to do an Everyman tonight, but I have to get this political bookmark monkey off my back first. It's that damned Palin.  She drives me frigging nuts.  I feel like Jenny's angry boyfriend in Forrest Gump. He runs around frothing, treating Jenny like crap, then falls back on "... [More]

Google relaunched its Blogsearch engine and from what I'm seeing it really is a potential TechMeme killer...and Memeorandum, too!  There doesn't seem to be anything on the Google Blogsearch memes in Technology or Politics that's missing from TechMeme or Memeorandum, and Blogsearch's UI seems mo... [More]

Trend Micro PC-cillin came installed on my 2-year-old Dell XP laptop and I've been quite happy with it. I particularly like PC-cillin when it alerts me real-time to the presence of a trojan like it did earlier this evening.      Had I stopped with deleting the file, if it weren't for... [More]

Stephen Baker of BusinessWeek gave an interesting commentary on Friday's Marketplace podcast on the concept behind his book "The Numerati."  Baker used a meeting with a search engine optimization expert as a starting point to describe how we now establish our relevance and ranking to machines, ... [More]

The screenshot below shows some of the thousands of emails I received today, as someone has set my dbvt.com email address as the return address of a spam blast.  This happened a couple of weeks ago as well, but it stopped so I had hoped it was a one-time deal. You sometimes forget there are ass... [More]

For the last several years I've had 3 credit cards.  One of them was a Chase MasterCard I opened to use with Circuit City's Rewards program. 5% of each purchase accumulates to use with future purchases.  I thought it was a smart program, so I started buying at Circuit City. Last week I rea... [More]

We wanted to do something Vermonty as a family on this Labor Day Holiday, so we took the Stowe Resort gondola up Mt. Mansfield, Vermont's highest mountain.  The gondola didn't take us all the way up, as there was a .7 mile trail to the crest, [accurately] rated in the trail map as "difficult."&... [More]

My wood guy dumped off our cord of winter wood a couple of weeks ago so I spent this beautiful Vermont Saturday morning performing the annual ritual of moving the wood pile from the side of the house to the back, then stacking it into 2 rows.  Below is a photo of the original pile location, sho... [More]

I was wondering why it was so quiet this week and no one was speaking to me, but now I know the answer. I discovered tonight when I updated my blog to BlogEngine.NET 1.4 on returning from the beach Sunday I forgot to restore an essential Community Server legacy page, my /blog/rss.aspx redirect to ... [More]

Another year, another week at Holden Beach, North Carolina comes to an end.  I was unexpectedly able to remain in touch with the world from our beachfront rental through the kindness of a friendly motorola router somewhere on the block.  As in all other areas it was a week of digital consu... [More]