JOBSEARCH: Handicapping jobsearch / networking tools. Everything has value.

Friday, March 9, 2007

In alpha order:

* ACT is a true CRM, does email, but doesn’t sync like Plaxo, and doesn’t interface with LinkedIn. No support.

* JibberJobber is an up and comer. It is a true Web20 application, allows you to get your data in and out, doesn’t do email, but is more like a CRM for jobsearch. And, the support is responsive. (This is my current front runner.)

* LICM is not CRM, has a harder interface, and is tough to get into. It depends upon LinkedIn. Has support.

* LinkedIn (MySpace for Business) enforces its model of networking, doesn’t allow you to input stuff, and doesn’t make it easy to keep your data. It doesn’t talk to anything else. Support unresponsive for the most part.

* Outlook is ugly, but it does email. (I’ve tried the BCM addon and it was terrible.) Microsoft and support in the same sentence; that’s a joke.

* Plaxo syncs but not much else. (But its vendor never claimed it was a CRM.) Has good support.

* ZIGGS20 is really slow, brain dead, ugly, doesn’t sync, and appears to be a dead end. Data in but it doesn’t come out. No support.

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INTERESTING: Cryptology should be practiced by all

Friday, March 9, 2007

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;
jsessionid=UXQ40JSPCWITXQFIQMFCFGGAVCB
QYIV0?xml=/news/2007/03/08/wmafia08.xml

http://tinyurl.com/399emv

Mafia boss had messages delivered by bus
By Malcolm Moore in Rome
Last Updated: 1:57am GMT 08/03/2007

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Investigators, including a team from the FBI, have spent the last eleven months deciphering his code. The investigation has led to dozens more arrests, as his crime syndicate was dismantled. Earlier this week, Vincenzo Piraneo, who drove a bus down the 189 road between Palermo and Agrigento, was arrested for allegedly helping Provenzano distribute his pizzini. A further 21 arrests were also made.

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Interesting that if one does cryptology right, then no arrests would have been possible.

One time pads, RSA, and cyclic substitution ciphers are virtually unbreakable. The British had to capture the Enigma to break it. The Americans broke the Japanese codes because of a breakdown in transmission security. The FBI broke the mad bomber’s rants because he left a worksheet around.

The amateur should look for the crystal box. How does it work and how do I know it’s secure. It doesn’t matter what the claim for a black box, you can NOT trust it.

How many of us have encrypted stuff and forgotten the key? I have.

Interesting problems.

 

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XPfails – luggable – BLOGDESK loses the ability to talk to the target

Friday, March 9, 2007

Interesting. Every once and while, BLOGDESK loses its mind. It fails to complete a conversation with the target blog it is storing into. I don’t know who to blame (i.e., the Blog site, XP, or BlogDesk). But only a reboot will clear. After a restart, everything works fine. Now that I have gotten in the habit of SAVE then PUBLISH, it’s NBD (no big deal).

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FUN: Cute joke I hadn’t heard before.

Friday, March 9, 2007

FROM LUDDITE’S WIFE

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Finally, a new bumper sticker for BOTH political parties.

This hottest selling political bumper sticker: “RUN HILARY RUN”

Democrats put it on the rear bumper.
Republicans put it on the front bumper.

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But, where would a Libertarian put it?

… anywhere he could in New Hampshire?

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