Good site to do DNS queries from an independant node on the Internet. I use it a lot at work to check if DNS records have been updated. The site also has good tools to check on BGP, WHOIS etc.
November 2005
2005 Half Marathon
It’s been a while since I updated the site :). Wanted to give some updates on my running accomplishments for 2005. After finishing last years Lasalle Marathon, I thought that I could train on my own this year. BIG MISTAKE!! :). Unless you are really (and I mean REALLY) motivated, it is very difficult to train alone for a marathon. So my training was pretty bad this year. I did manage to finish the marathon though. Only 30 minutes longer than last year :).
Here is a picture from the 2005 Chicago Half Marathon, I ran as part of my training
Excel : Import tables from web pages
Ran into a bit of a tough nut the other day. One of my colleagues was trying to gather data from a HTML page and run some reports. He could scrape the page and copy the data into Excel, but any operations he tried on the data errored out. He tried every trick in the book (change format of columns etc) but it didn’t help.
A bit of googling and found this new cool function in Excel 2003.
Go to “Data –> Import External Data –> New Web Query” in Excel and you check on this new cool method.
“F1” in Excel rules :)..
IPSec – What is it??
This is a great write up by Stephen Friedl about the IPSec suite of protocols. Highly recommend reading it.
On a side note, I finally updated the Blogging software on the site. Have been getting a lot of “blogspam” from the entries on this site. It is just amazing how far the spammers go to NOT get their message :).
Runs for 2005
For my records.. here are some of the runs I participated in this year
April 9 | BADGERLAND STRIDERS SOUTH SHORE HALF MARATHON | 13.1 Miles | Chip Time : 2:12:31
May 26 | CHASE Corporate Challenge | 3.5Miles
Aug 7th | Chicago Distance Classic | 13.1Miles | Chip Time : 2:17:01
Sept 24th | Chicago Half Marathon | 13.1 Miles | Chip Time : 2:21:28
OCt 9th | Chicago Lasalle Marathon | 26.2 Miles | Chip Time : 5:14:41
As you can see.. it has been a very “slow pace” year :).