Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

My Cyber Buds should take a vacation in Ireland. As I may have mentioned before, I'm not big on vacations but my wife is, which is one of the reasons I married her. Leah forces me to travel to places I wouldn't go otherwise, like Ireland. In spite of my l... [More]

I'm heading to Ireland tomorrow for a week vacation.  I don't have many more details for you at the moment, since it's a normal Burke Family Vacation with my phenomenal wife making all of the arrangements and telling me what day and time we need to b... [More]

I said yesterday that I wouldn't go back to iTunes and my iPod after going Zune.  That doesn't mean the Zune software is perfect.  I miss the iTunes Recently Added folder, for one thing.  I have rarely in my life purchased anything but comp... [More]

One of the reasons my Zune won my affections over my iPod is the ease with which I can add videos and other materials to my media collection.  The Zune software seems to be much more integrated with the file system than iTunes.  Changes in file ... [More]

Amazon doesn't provide you with a quick total of the thousands of dollars you may have spent over the last 10 years of it's existence.  If they did, it might cause some hesitation before periodic bulk purchases are initiated.  Whatever the incal... [More]

I've been spending my latenight geek sessions this week preparing for my "Patterns of Splendor" Advanced CodeSmith presentation at New England Code Camp 9 this weekend.  That means updating Visual Studio projects, databases and CodeSmith template lib... [More]

I love March in Vermont.  Absolutely and truly.  April is pretty crappy and my least favorite month, but while March remains I'll enjoy the snow that seems to cover the ground throughout the month, with more frequent sunny days and milder temper... [More]

I would be doing Apple a disservice by not writing about the excellent support they provided in responding to the death of My Precious, which I wrote about here. My expectations weren't high, but I thought I'd go through the motions anyway.  I went t... [More]

Few sites on the Internet impress me anymore, or even interest me to be honest.  I hit Yahoo News and TechMeme a few times a day, check my Netflix queue, and that's pretty much the extent of my web surfing day.  So blogging about Pandora is a bi... [More]

We received more of that beautiful white stuff overnight, so after I snow-blowed the driveway Murphy and I started our workday with a walk in a nearby University of Vermont natural forest.