Relationship : “It you work too hard to make it happen, it is not worth it.”
Life : “Life is what you make out of it”
Credit goes to Huma :)..
Makhna ve makhna
Last weekend, I attended my first concert by a fusion band named Funkadesi. They play a fusion of Bhangra and Reggae. The band definitely knew how to keep the crowd entertained.. They also introduced another band “The Afromotive” as their opening act. I thought that this band had great talent. I rarely buy music.. but was so impressed by the talent of both the bands that I bought their CDs on the spot. I forgot to take my camera with me.. but this video kinds shows how fun the band was
And the best part of it? The percussionists did an improve of Boney M‘s “Rivers of Babylon” to close the concert. To say the least… I was stoked!! :-).
If you get a chance.. definitely check them out.
Stephen Colbert.. I envy you.
I thought long and hard before writing this post.. but finally thought, the topic was too funny not to share it with others :-). Warning that this post contains sexual content and is NSFW..
I was browsing (I swear) through the channels on my TV, the other night, and came upon a program called “Katie Morgan’s Sex Tips” on HBO. And yes, it was purely coincidental :-).. So anyways, one of the viewers asks Katie about multiple orgasms. Katie brought a guest on the show by the name Marenna Lindberg to answer the question. Apparently this women can experience an orgasm in a few seconds!! Katie asks her to give a demo on screen and voila.. Marenna whips out a picture of Stephen Colbert.. yes, The Stephen Colbert 🙂 .. looks at the photo for a few seconds..closes her eyes and in a few seconds whimpers out an orgasm!!! I was literally rolling on the floor as I watching this :-). And Marenna attributes this to her diet and her crush on Stephen Colbert. She even wrote a book about it.. “The Orgasmic Diet”
So ladies.. start eating fish oil, stop drinking and smoking. Make the “not-so-better” side of you happy 🙂
How does the iPod touch detect your location?
If you are the proud owner of an iPod touch, you would have noticed that the Google maps application on it identifies your current location with scary preciseness. Every wonder, how the touch manages to do that without a GPS or cellular receiver? Apparently, Apple uses a service from a company called Skyhook Wireless to do this. And how does Skyhook achieve this? They drive around in vehicles scanning for wi-fi signals and create a database that matches the SSID and MAC Address with the physical address. Put on your tin hats folks!! 🙂
Some interesting links
Apple’s use of Skyhook : http://www.skyhookwireless.com/inaction/apple.php
How Skyhook does it : http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitworks/wps.php
New land of opportunity for baseball..
Sri sent this link (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb/11/24/pirates.indians.ap/index.html?cnn=yes#) from Sports Illustrated about a story of how the Pittsburgh Pirates signed up two 20 year old men from India as free agents to be part of their farm. These two guys never touched a baseball in their life!! Other than pitching at a reality show called “The Million Dollar Arm”.
Imagine.. it is the bottom of the ninth, The Pirates are leading by a run and the opposing team has all the bases loaded. 1 strike and 2 balls.. The manager calles in Patel as a closer.. the crowd goes crazy yelling “Patel.. Patel..Patel..” LOL :). Cannot wait to see that..
What next??
I ran across this report from BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7743312.stm) about some clerics in Malaysia issuing a fatwa against Yoga. Why?.. To quote the reason…Yoga would “destroy the faith of a Muslim”.
Excuse me?? Even though Yoga started out in India as an Hinduism practice, most know that Yoga is practiced today mostly as a stress reliever and workout. I just wonder, what goes through the minds of these so called enlightened gentlemen, when they come out with such ridiculous decisions.
P.S : This note has nothing to do about Islam or Hinduism. We have “enlightened” people like these in all walks of life. It is more about how we let crazy decisions like this divide us.
HOW TO : Recover deleted SSL certs from IIS
Here’s the situation.. you installed SSL cert on a website in IIS. You think you don’t need that site anymore and delete the site from IIS. The moment you delete it, you bite your tounge and remember that you are supposed to back up the SSL cert for future purposes.. But since the site has been deleted from IIS, you cannot export the key from the IIS manager!!.
Thx to Microsoft’s oversight (or potentially by design), you can still recover the certificate from the server.. Here’s how
- Open a MMC console by typing “mmc” in the Start –> Run prompt
- In the MMC console, click on File -> Add/Remove Snap-in
- In the “Add/Remove Snap-in” window, click on Add
- Choose the “certificate” snap-on and click on Add.
- Choose Computer Account in the certificate snap-on window and click on Next.
- Choose “Local Computer” (Note : If you want to recover from a remote computer, you can put in the UNC path. But you need to have admin rights on that machine) and click on Finish.
- Click on close and go back to the MMC console
- You will see all the certificates installed on the server
- Expand the “personal certificates” folder and you will see the SSL certificate from the website you deleted from IIS. Follow standard steps to export the certificate.
Note to self : Audio conference providers
If you you are ever looking to deploy an audio conference solution, make sure you go with a solution that doesn’t have more than 7 digits as the conference passcode. The human brain is not capable of remembering anything longer without writing it down!! :-)..
HOW TO : Sync files using FTP
If you ever run into a situation, where you need to sync two different directories and need to do that in a batch mode, try using FTPSync.
FTPSync is a freeware tool written by Kristof Gajsek. The tool has a bunch of options, like being able to operate in GUI and batch mode. Also good automated sync capabilities.
Only limitation is that it is windows based.
Overheard : Comment about life
Comment by a survivor of the 1972 Uruguayan Air Force crash on the Andes..
Plan to live for a 100 years, but be ready to die today..
Heard this on NPR during a review of the documentary Stranded..