I ran across this link http://www.mtit.com/resources/teamblogs.htm wihle browsing the web. It has a list of Microsoft Team blogs, where teams from certain business areas in Microsoft write on certain applications or areas. One that I visit on a regular basis is the Exchange Team Blog at http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/. Lots of good material there..
Web
Party time..
I think it is high time I started using Flickr to post my pictures. I take a ton of pictures (yes, I am one of those crazy guys, that carry a camera on them ALL the time) and haven’t found a way to share them with friends and family without maxing out the traffic on my hosted site. I have been looking at all the photo sharing, social tagging sites such as flickr, fotki, hello for quite some time, but never got around to creating an account and using them. I don’t like sites that require you to register just to look at pictures (kodak!!). We have too many accounts as it is, without having to register on a site just to look at some photos.
Long post short :).. Here is the first attempt to start logging my pictures online. The link to my pictures on flickr is
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kudithipudi/sets/72057594092170857/
P.S: If anyone wants me to delete their photos, pls shoot me an E-mail at vinay at kudithipudi dot org. Thx.
Google in xx-hacker!!
I was doing some research on “Inter-Tel, Inc.” in Google and came across this interesting link
in the search results. Looks like this is a Google interface in H4x0R code :),
Gotta check this out..
I am still working on the Vegas trip post.. But here is something I stumbled upon. A very unique way of using the collective power of the web.
www.stumbleupon.com. This is a site, where you can tag interesting sites based on your interest, you can “stumble” on it. You can install a plugin for Firefox for it too. BTW.. Firefox 1.5 is out. If you haven’t tried it out yet.. Highly reccomend it. Fast, Small, Easy to use broswer as an alternate to MSFT’ Internet Explorer.
Microsoft related site
Looks like today is going to be a day of “Cool Sites” posts :). Here is a site maintained by Daniel Petri containing all sorts of MSFT articles. Daniel writes a lot of articles about issues that admins run into on a daily basis and he has some great practicle advice. Highly recommend visiting it regulary.
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 :).