Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

Amazon continues to impress.  I was using the Amazon Downloader with an album I purchased this evening when it aborted after the second song.  "Do you wish to send an error report to Microsoft...?" There was a link to contact Customer Service by... [More]

The 160GB Video iPod Classic I bought less than 3 months ago died yesterday while I was exercising on my [NordicTrack] Ski Machine, the very first time I used it while on the ski machine, in fact.  Its screen froze about 20 minutes into the session a... [More]

I use the Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar around the clock.  Adding new client sites to the toolbar saves me a lot of time for instance.  And with Firefox you can simply drag the url in the address box to the Bookmarks Toolbar and you're good to go wi... [More]

What a diet!  Truly a benefit of getting 3 steel tubes in your heart arteries is that it motivates you to make changes in your diet that you never would have made otherwise.  I haven't had red meat in two weeks, haven't drank a beer, haven't eat... [More]

Great session at the Health Club today. I went to the Health Club for the first time since my most recent catheterization procedure on Friday. It's hard to believe a third tube was inserted in my heart a few days ago. I clicked off 650 calories on the ell... [More]

I don't know if this will be a regular series or not, but I wanted to follow up on my earlier post about my heart issue. Nuther day, nuther tube, nuther night in the hospital.  I went back to the hospital on Friday for another catheterization. ... [More]

I skipped Sunday School today to install a wireless card in my little girl's new Vista PC and add a wireless printer my wife bought last week to the Burke home network.  I made it for church, so everything was quite successful, and enlightening. As f... [More]

Donut 059, originally uploaded by isopeanut. Having a heart condition and--as I've been accused of--having a "Donut Obsession," don't exactly coexist in perfect harmony. But like my father-in-law who's 83 and happily married for 56 years says... [More]

I turned 50 in November.  Fifty, man.  I probably need to say something profound on this historic occasion, particularly in light of working in the youth-oriented environment of technology.  Okay, how's this?  I've learned that you can... [More]

Funny, I feel like I'm still in Christmas and New Years holiday mode and that the grind hasn't really kicked into gear yet.  To help bring me back into the workabilly flow I'll write this holiday season 2007 recap to remind myself that the grind has ... [More]