Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

This just in! I bought a Lumia 900 Windows Phone and I like it! There are others like me who are just now discovering Microsoft’s Windows Phone, but this is my second time around so I was skeptical. It all started with my Zune 80GB. I used it nearly ever... [More]

It’s been over a year since I lost Murphy and while I still think about him almost every day it’s time to move on. Welcome Gus, a goofy puppy who started life in a Kentucky Kill Shelter and found his way to Burlington, Vermont.  We adopted him throug... [More]

I deleted my Facebook account today and I feel fine. As for why I left, I couldn’t help thinking I was in a Twilight Zone Episode titled “To Serve Man.”  Facebook was the master alien race and I was heading up the stairway into the spacecraft. If yo... [More]

This is one of my staple Pennsylvania Dutch recipes that I'm posting to easily reference it in the future. I'm planning to make a chocolate cake tonight and I had to look it up on one of my office PCs. Thank God I put it in a safe place.  You may t... [More]

I love my Zune 80GB player. I love my Zune Pass. But I have to tell you, there’s something seriously mucked-up in the new 4.2 version of the Zune Marketplace. And when I say “seriously mucked-up” I’m talking data corruption that we in the database applica... [More]

Microsoft did a fantastic job making PDC09 accessible to everyone, even to geeks as far away as Vermont. Their real-time HD video coverage of the keynotes and conference presentations was awesome. And what Microsoft didn't provide at http://microsoftpdc.c... [More]

This is common knowledge for most of you reading this, but I wanted a reference point for myself on the topic of shortened URLs and tweets. "Mentions" are a twitter feature where your twitter name (mine is @daveburkevt) is included in the tweet so that it... [More]

This past weekend the Burkes drove from Burlington, Vermont to pick up our daughter from summer camp on the east side of New Hampshire near the Maine border in Ossipee.  To get there we drove down beautiful I-89 Vermont, then on beautiful I-93 New Ha... [More]

We just returned from five days across the border, the Canadian border, that is, vacationing at the Auberge de Lac Morency resort outside of Montreal, Quebec.  It struck me when we returned home that one of the great things about living in Burlington... [More]

As of this afternoon, my wife and I now sport new 32GB 3GS iPhones. Our purchase and activation couldn’t have been handled more smoothly than it was by the nearby South Burlington AT&T guys at the Dorsett Street store. (And the place was a zoo!) ... [More]