Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Wayne Rooney

I wish that I had never made a post on Wayne Rooney. It seems to gather a disproportional number of "hits".

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The reasons for this are probably due to the fact that Euro 2012 is in a lot peoples minds.

Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification

This is the specification that is related to the use of IPv6 compliant network equipment.

Nimble Social CRM Business Edition


Nimble - award-winning Social Relationship Manager


The interest that I have in the Social CRM product is due to a Blog Spam email that I received yesterday from Brenda Christensen of nimble.com.

I am not sure what the use of Social Media brings to the table, in fact I am dubious of the value of CRM. Having said that I had my own version of CRM that I developed for my own use many years ago. This was before "Social Media" existed, also before computers were "personal" - I am of the belief that it is not to tool but the desire to keep track of this information that is the key to Customer Relations. Having a method that is designed by someone else is not likely to reflect what you are trying to capture. In my day customers were impressed that you knew what you talked about last time you spoke - today customers are not impressed that you know the today is the anniversary of their dog dying!

Intel T3200 processor

An OEM Processor

Like many of the processors that do not appear on the Intel website (so you cannot look up to see whether they support a particular feature such as vt-x), the T3200 is a process that Intel supplied to Original Equipment Manufacturers (aren't they all?) so that they could divorce themselves from what is capable and what is not.

Other examples of this feature on this blog and include:

NoTracks Anti-Tracker 1.3.3 (Windows)

This page was prompted by a visitor interest in Scroogle and a ZDNet Downloads Digest article

It seems that all you have to do to feature on this website/page is to pay the money.

Not that there is anything wrong with paid advertizing, but it needs to be stated for what it is and not a veiled presentation  implying an endorsement.


As far as a product goes,  the NoTracks Anti-Tracker software is probably a little redundant as there are probably at lot of other things you can do to protect your identity and what you have been up to on the Internet. My post here was rather more aimed at the fact that just because a product is seen featured on ZDNet's Downloads Digest it does indicate any sort of review or endorsement by ZDNet.

If your concern is websites tracking you, such as Google with Analytics code used by a vast number of sites (including this one) then your best defense is to turn off JavaScripting in your browser.

If you are worried that others using your computer will know where you have visited I would suggest that if you are savvy enough to find the NoTracks software than you are more than capable of removing your tracks from you computer. If you are looking for a method to do this automatically then NoTracks may works for you. I am of the opinion that "less is more" and the fewer programs that I can install on my computer the better.