HOW TO : Use curl to check the impact of DNS changes
Ran into an interesting scenario at work today. We had to check the impact of a DNS change on a certain hostname. Normally, you would edit...
Interesting (infrastructure) tidbits about Microsoft Azure
I attended a session organized by aditi regarding Microsoft Azure and Windows 8, called “Go Cloud 8” today. One of the speakers in the event was...
Another 4 years
Word cloud (wordle) of Obama’s speech after winning a second term.
For loop in Windows command shell
For my records, syntax for running a simple for loop in command prompt [code]for %i in (SERVER1 SERVER2) do nslookup %i [/code] note : Looks like...
And she kicks my arse again
Jhanvi and I ran the 2012 Chicago Hot Chocolate 15K today. This was the first race in the city after we officially became “suburbanites” last week....
SNL hacked
Screenshot of NBC’ hacked website (in particular the Saturday Night Live section). Link to Hacker News discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4740312 I found it interesting that the site was not...