Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

I wanted to share a daily news service with you I receive each day, free of charge, from Tim Anater.  How he is able to produce this every day, I have no idea.  The guy is incredibly smart, for sure, but if you check out his @bfbcping twitter st... [More]

It’s always a good holiday weekend when it results in new additions to my photo gallery.  Taking advantage of my new photo gallery recent photos display, I walked through several pages and grabbed the weekend’s 60-some photos. They include today’s v... [More]

A few snapshots from Niquette Bay State Park located in Colchester, Vermont, about 30 minutes from our front door.  I didn't know this place existed until yesterday, so it was a wonderful Memorial Day discovery.  We wanted to take a family holid... [More]

Early Wednesday afternoon I was at my desk remotely configuring a client’s IIS server to support some weird CAD file extension when I started getting the chills. Within minutes I was shaking pretty bad so I headed down the hall and straight to bed.  ... [More]

My podcast listening routine has been fixed for quite a while now, but there's not much of it anymore.  Since Murphy's gone I don't take many walks, and since I work at home that leaves trips to the grocery store and errands for podcasts.  Still... [More]

March is my favorite month of the year. When you hike in Vermont during March the temperatures are cool, the skies are often blue, the sun starts to feel warm for the first time of the year, and yet you get to walk on snow! The combination of the sun’s wa... [More]

  It’s been a week since I lost my Murphy Dog.  Murphy came into our lives 12 years ago through a Pittsburgh Gazette classifieds ad titled “Golden Retriever-Mix Puppies.”  It lead my wife and I to a trailer on a dirt road outside of New Sta... [More]

This post is essentially a collection of tweets about my Christmas 2008 experience of visiting wife-side family in Manhattan, Kansas for 5 days. I’m of the opinion that more than 3 tweets in succession should take a different form, so I am sticking them h... [More]

Thousands of 30GB Zune owners have formed a “My Zune is a Brick” club on this New Year’s Eve day after a Y2K-like issue killed their Zunes.  Some sort of clock bug related to 2008 having 366 days is causing 30GB models to reboot and then hang before ... [More]

Having access to the full cuts of millions of songs and classical performances with the Zune Pass has changed how I experience music, and at three weeks into a Zune Pass I think I can draw some conclusions. Below are the additions to my Zune Collection si... [More]