Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

When you're a freelance developer like myself and not on a salary, you gain a different perspective on career-enhancing expenses like ReMix07 Boston.  On my drive back to Vermont I thought about what I spent out of pocket for the two days of ReMix an... [More]

Since [NordicTrack] season is here, I'll be needing new reading material while on my sweet ski machine.  I'm currently reading The Meaning of the 21st Century by James Martin and am really enjoying it. The four new books that arrived today are listed... [More]

The Live Writer Beta 3.0 has been killing me, as you might have noticed with occasional bad links and Unicode nastiness scattered about on my feed posts, like a post yesterday shown below.  I always go back and clean them up, but they sometimes slip ... [More]

I have the idea that Amazon is going to garner an even larger slice of my registered credit card pie with their MP3 Store, as I purchased two more albums today on only their second day of operations. The first album I purchased was Seth Lakeman's Kitty J... [More]

I had to check out the Amazon MP3 Store this morning when I heard it had opened its doors.  Amazon does so many things right, and I think the MP3 Store is another example.  I checked on the availability of music from a list of mostly independent... [More]

I picked up one of those ubiquitous black SanDisk USB Cruzer flash drives at Radio Shack a couple months ago and used it for the first time today, plugging into a Windows 2003 Server machine. I used someone else's Cruzer flash drive before with XP and hat... [More]

I saw a CSS editing app called CSSVista listed on some link blog (it wasn't Jason's), and since I'm always in the market for a new CSS tool I thought I'd give it a whirl. My advice is save yourself the aggravation. Within 20 seconds it lost the CSS displa... [More]

My brand new version of Live Writer Beta 3.0 is inserting the non-breaking space unicode pattern when I backspace over a former space or when I carriage-return twice.   Don't delete your copy of the Beta 2.0 Install_WLWriter.exe just yet.

Live Writer is probably one of my top 5 most used applications, so it was unfortunate when I tried to install it on my Windows 2003 Server yesterday I got   Looks like I'm stuck with Writer Beta 2 on that machine.  My favorite version of Write... [More]

We're heading off for our annual Labor Day Fish Creek camping weekend in the upper New York state Finger Lakes region.  A beautiful area deep in the Adirondacks, for sure.  The drive is beautiful, as well, beginning with a boat ride across Lake ... [More]