Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

I was lucky enough to get an invite to go sailing tonight, along with my wife and little girl. My first time on a sailboat. Wow. Another time out and I know I'll be hooked. The silence of the open lake, a slight wind and holding the rope to the sail as it... [More]

Its been a good couple of weeks for Nordic Tracking, which I do in spurts here in my home office and then I don't do it for long periods of time. But every minute I AM Nordic Tracking is spent reading something interesting from my shelf. Occasio... [More]

This may be old news to many, but I discovered notlong.com just today and love it.  What it does is change a long URL into a short one. Lets say I want to pass a google newsgroup post to my host provider as an example to a problem I'm having.  ... [More]

The weather is perfect in Vermont these days.  I want to enjoy them while they last, so I headed to the lake today because I “just felt like biking along the lake.”  Burlington and the Lake Champlain area have a wonderful network of bikin... [More]

I wrote on my discovery of MS Reader for the PocketPC not long ago at weblogs.asp.net.  I investigated MS Reader primarily for reading to my little girl at night, but found myself using it regularly for my own reading.  I will read a bit after... [More]

Of course, if I were cool, I'd be saying "Set your TIVO for Drumline." But since I never claimed to be cool, I have to say "Set your Scientific Atlanta Adelphia-leased digital video recorder..." HBO has been showing Drumline around the clock for the las... [More]

A beautiful Vermont September Thursday has begun.  The sun is shining, and in my home office the parakeet is singing, the goldfish is swimming, and Groove Salad tunes are streaming.  I have a few tasks to knock out for profit before I can code for pleasur... [More]

I'll say it for you. "What th'???" Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war,... [More]

As a nerdy teleworker who enjoys the company of machines over people, when I find myself in a social situation (and its not a Vermont .Net Users Group meeting) I am there because it is something I am attending at the request of my super wif... [More]

For eleven years my Mac SE has been humming along in the kitchen holding recipees and grocery lists.  Its always a conversational piece at parties, and after eleven years it has become sentimental to me, at least as much as any computer can. I ... [More]